Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 50
An odd-shaped, pointed hat rested on his curly black hair, and an uncultivated beard covered the lower part of his face.
Who acts: uncultivated beard · What happens: shape, point, rest, cover · To what, where: shaped pointed hat, curly black hair
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 (uncultivated beard), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hat | det |
| 2 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shaped | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 odd | punct |
| 4 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hat | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hat | punct |
| 6 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hat | amod |
| 7 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 covered | obl |
| 8 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hat | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | amod |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | amod |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rested | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 covered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 covered | cc |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 beard | det |
| 17 | uncultivated | uncultivated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beard | amod |
| 18 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 covered | nsubj |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 covered | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 face | nmod:poss |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | point | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rest | participle | a shaped pointed hat not said here | man's curly black hair | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hair=Location | ||||
| 4 | cover | past | a uncultivated beard | a shaped pointed hat | the lower part of man's face obj | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination |
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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