Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 67
Among all these grinning creatures strutted a peacock, in which certainly pride made a most ridiculous figure, as he craned his beautiful neck in the brilliant sunlight, and dragged his gorgeous tail--alas! by means of the ugliest feet and legs ever made.
Who acts: pride, man · What happens: grin, strut, make, crane, drag, mean · To what, where: peacock, grinning creatures, ridiculous figure, beautiful neck, gorgeous tail, ugliest feet · 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 (pride, 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 5 creatures | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 creatures | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 creatures | det |
| 4 | grinning | grin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 creatures | amod |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strutted | obl |
| 6 | strutted | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peacock | det |
| 8 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strutted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | obl |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 pride | advmod |
| 13 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strutted | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 figure | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 ridiculous | advmod |
| 17 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 figure | amod |
| 18 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 craned | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 craned | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 craned | nsubj |
| 22 | craned | crane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 neck | amod |
| 25 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 craned | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sunlight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sunlight | det |
| 28 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sunlight | amod |
| 29 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 craned | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dragged | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dragged | cc |
| 32 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 means | csubj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 tail | nmod:poss |
| 34 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tail | amod |
| 35 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dragged | obj |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 alas | punct |
| 37 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 tail | conj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 dragged | punct |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 means | case |
| 40 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strutted | parataxis |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 feet | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 feet | det |
| 43 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 feet | amod |
| 44 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 means | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 legs | cc |
| 46 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 feet | conj |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 made | advmod |
| 48 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 feet | acl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strutted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | strut | past | a peacock | all grinning creatures | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent peacock=Theme among creature=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | past | pride | a ridiculous figure | which obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product | |||
| 4 | crane | past | man | man's beautiful neck | in the brilliant sunlight | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in sunlight=Topic | |||
| 5 | drag | past | man's gorgeous tail and alas | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | of the ugliest feet and legs | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | make | participle | the ugliest feet and legs not said here | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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