Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 72

He looked up, but saw nothing but the shadow of the oak under which he sat, heard nothing save the sighing of the evening wind in its branches.

Who acts: form · What happens: look up, see, sit, hear, shadow · To what, where: nothing, oak, branches

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 (form), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saw	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 shadow	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 oak	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oak	det
13	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shadow	nmod
14	under	under	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sat	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 oak	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 heard	obj
21	save	save	ADP	_	23 sighing	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sighing	det
23	sighing	sighing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 wind	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wind	compound
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sighing	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 branches	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 branches	nmod:poss
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heard	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	form				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past		nothing the shadow of the oak			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	sit	past	form		the oak		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location
4	hear	past		nothing	wind's branches	save the sighing of the evening wind	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	shadow			the oak			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 72