Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 77
It was already late when he reached his cottage, and mother and children were asleep.
Who acts: object, Ei, mother · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: cottage
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 (object, Ei, mother), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 late | cop |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 late | advmod |
| 4 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 reached | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asleep | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asleep | cc |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asleep | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 children | cc |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mother | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asleep | cop |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reached | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | object | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Ei | Ei's cottage | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mother and children | asleep property | tree rules |
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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