Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 49
The warder saw the train approaching, and at once opened the gates to admit it.
Who acts: warder, train · What happens: see, approach, open, admit · To what, where: train, gates
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warder, train), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warder | det |
| 2 | warder | warder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 train | det |
| 5 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 train | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 opened | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 opened | obl |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gates | det |
| 13 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opened | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 admit | mark |
| 15 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 opened | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 admit | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the warder | the train | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer train=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | the train not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | past | the gates | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | train | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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