Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 48
His bald head, from which on each side short silver locks hung down, a long white beard falling over his breast, the lean, stern features, and the black robe, gave him the appearance of an anchorite.
Who acts: long white beard, black robe · What happens: hang down, fall, give · To what, where: bald head, side, breast, appearance, man
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 (long white beard, black robe), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 head | amod |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hung | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 silver | amod |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | conj |
| 12 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hung | aux:pass |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 hung | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beard | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beard | amod |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beard | amod |
| 19 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obj |
| 20 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 beard | acl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 breast | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 breast | nmod:poss |
| 23 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 falling | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 features | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 features | det |
| 26 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 features | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lean | punct |
| 28 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 features | amod |
| 29 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 beard | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gave | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gave | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 robe | det |
| 33 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 robe | amod |
| 34 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gave | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 robe | punct |
| 36 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hung | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | iobj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 appearance | det |
| 39 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gave | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 anchorite | case |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 anchorite | det |
| 42 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 appearance | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang down | present · passive | man's bald head | each side and short silver | which obl; a long white beard and the lean stern features obj | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient beard=Result | |||
| 2 | fall | gerund | a long white beard and the lean stern features not said here | man's breast | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over breast=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the black robe | the appearance of a anchorite | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient appearance=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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