Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 78

The thought of their distress when they awoke caused him to try what he could do in the village, but all were deaf to his entreaties.

Who acts: children, thought, Ei, all · What happens: awake, cause, try, do, be, think · To what, where: Ei, village, distress

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 (children, thought, Ei, all), 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 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 distress	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 distress	nmod:poss
5	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 awoke	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 awoke	nsubj
8	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distress	acl:relcl
9	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caused	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 try	mark
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 caused	xcomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 try	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 village	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 village	det
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 deaf	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 deaf	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 deaf	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 deaf	cop
24	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 caused	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 entreaties	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 entreaties	nmod:poss
27	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 deaf	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	children = child					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cause	past	the thought of children's distress		Ei			tree rules
3	try	to-infinitive	the thought of children's distress not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	do not said to happen	could	Ei			the village	what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	is	past	all				to Ei's entreaties; deaf property	tree rules
6	think			children's distress				nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	distress		children = child					nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 78