Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 42
But, lo! scarcely were the haughty words uttered, when a cooing and a fluttering of wings were heard.
Who acts: wings · What happens: be, utter, hear, flutter · To what, where: haughty words, cooing
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 (wings), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 words | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
| 3 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 words | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 lo | punct |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 9 words | advmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 words | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 words | det |
| 8 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 words | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 heard | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cooing | det |
| 14 | cooing | cooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fluttering | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fluttering | det |
| 17 | fluttering | fluttering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cooing | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wings | case |
| 19 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fluttering | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 uttered | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the haughty words | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | participle | the haughty words not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | a cooing and a fluttering of wings | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | flutter | wings | nom fluttering «event intransitive»: of=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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