Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 43
The prelates fled in a fright, seeing themselves robbed of their dinner; the partridges flew forth and settled on a buttress, where they were turned to stone, and remained as heralds of the dawn of a better day.
Who acts: prelates, partridges · What happens: flee, see, rob, fly, settle, turn · To what, where: fright, prelates, Partridges, stone
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 (prelates, partridges), 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 prelates | det |
| 2 | prelates | prelate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fright | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fright | det |
| 6 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fled | advcl |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 seeing | obj |
| 10 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seeing | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robbed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 partridges | det |
| 16 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flew | nsubj |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fled | parataxis |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 flew | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 settled | cc |
| 20 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 flew | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 buttress | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 buttress | det |
| 23 | buttress | buttress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 settled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turned | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 turned | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turned | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 turned | aux:pass |
| 28 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 buttress | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 stone | case |
| 30 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turned | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 remained | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 remained | cc |
| 33 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 flew | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 heralds | case |
| 35 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 remained | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 dawn | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dawn | det |
| 38 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 heralds | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 day | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 day | det |
| 41 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 day | amod |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dawn | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | the prelates | a fright | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the prelates not said here | prelates = prelate | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rob | participle | prelates = prelate not said here | of prelates's dinner | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of dinner=Source | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | the partridges | forth property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | settle | participle | the partridges not said here | on a buttress | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on buttress=Topic | ||||
| 6 | turn | past · passive | Partridges = partridge | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | remain | participle | the partridges not said here | as heralds of the dawn of a better day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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