Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 64
The terrified man knew of nothing better to do than to resign himself to his fate, and to observe more closely his surroundings.
Who acts: terrified man, man · What happens: know, resign, observe, fate · To what, where: man, fate, surroundings
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 (terrified man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 knew | obl |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 resign | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resign | aux |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 resign | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 resign | mark |
| 12 | resign | resign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 resign | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 fate | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resign | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 observe | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 observe | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 observe | mark |
| 20 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resign | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 closely | advmod |
| 22 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 20 observe | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 24 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 observe | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the terrified man | of nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | resign | to-infinitive · do-support | the terrified man not said here | man | man's fate | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to fate=Recipient | |||
| 3 | observe | to-infinitive | the terrified man not said here | man's surroundings | closely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent surroundings=Topic | |||
| 4 | fate | man | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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