Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 52
All three looked at the approaching huntsman with so much firmness and composure that he was only able to inquire, "What are you doing here, gentlemen?
Who acts: three, man, you · What happens: look, approach, be, inquire, do · To what, where: approaching huntsman, gentlemen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (three, man, you), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 huntsman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 huntsman | det |
| 6 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 huntsman | amod |
| 7 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 firmness | case |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 firmness | amod |
| 11 | firmness | firmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 composure | cc |
| 13 | composure | composure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 firmness | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 able | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 able | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 able | advmod |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 inquire | mark |
| 20 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 doing | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 doing | punct |
| 23 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 doing | obj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 doing | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 doing | nsubj |
| 26 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 doing | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gentlemen | punct |
| 29 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 doing | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | all three | the approaching huntsman | with much firmness and composure | tree rules | |||
| 2 | approach | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | man | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | gentlemen | here | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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