Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 10
Now the foul fiend stood by his miserable bed tempting him.
Who acts: foul fiend · What happens: stand, tempt · To what, where: fiend
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foul fiend), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fiend | det |
| 3 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fiend | amod |
| 4 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bed | amod |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tempting | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the foul fiend | now | by fiend's miserable bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location | |||
| 2 | tempt | gerund | the foul fiend not said here | fiend | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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