Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 45
The forester of Scharzfels, with his gun on his shoulder, was one day sauntering through the wood, when, as he turned a corner, he saw three men in a young plantation digging, and thereby doing much mischief.
Who acts: forester, one day, Scharzfels, young plantation · What happens: be, saunter, turn, see, dig, do · To what, where: one day, wood, corner, three men, young plantation, much mischief
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 (forester, one day, Scharzfels, young plantation), 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 forester | det |
| 2 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Scharzfels | case |
| 4 | Scharzfels | Scharzfels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forester | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gun | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gun | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gun | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forester | appos |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoulder | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gun | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 forester | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | sauntering | saunter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 day | acl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sauntering | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 turned | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 turned | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 corner | det |
| 27 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 turned | conj |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 men | nummod |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 saw | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 plantation | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 plantation | det |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 plantation | amod |
| 36 | plantation | plantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obl |
| 37 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 plantation | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 doing | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 doing | cc |
| 40 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 41 doing | advmod |
| 41 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 digging | conj |
| 42 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 mischief | amod |
| 43 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 doing | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the forester of Scharzfels | one day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | saunter | gerund | one day not said here | the wood | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | Scharzfels | a corner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Scharzfels | three men | a young plantation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | dig | gerund | a young plantation not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | gerund | a young plantation not said here | much mischief | thereby property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
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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