Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 68
Suddenly the gilded, grated door flew open, an old Moor came out, bowed low before the forester with his hands meekly crossed before him, invited him by a wave of the hand to follow him, and both entered the garden.
Who acts: gilded door, old Moor, both · What happens: gild, grate, fly, come out, bow, cross · To what, where: forester, hands, man, garden, hand
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 (gilded door, old Moor, both), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 3 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 door | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grated | punct |
| 5 | grated | grate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gilded | conj |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flew | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Moor | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Moor | amod |
| 12 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bowed | punct |
| 16 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 17 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 bowed | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 forester | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forester | det |
| 20 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bowed | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forester | nmod |
| 24 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 25 crossed | advmod |
| 25 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hands | acl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 crossed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 invited | punct |
| 29 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 invited | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 wave | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 wave | det |
| 33 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 invited | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hand | det |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wave | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 follow | mark |
| 38 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 invited | advcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 follow | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 entered | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 entered | cc |
| 42 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 entered | nsubj |
| 43 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 garden | det |
| 45 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 entered | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | grate | participle | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | fly | past | the gilded door | open, suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | a old Moor | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bow | participle | a old Moor not said here | the forester with man's hands | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before forester=Location | |||
| 6 | cross | participle | man's hands not said here | before man | meekly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | invite | past | the gilded door not said here | man | by a wave of the hand | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 8 | follow | to-infinitive | the gilded door not said here | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 9 | enter | past | both | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination | ||||
| 10 | wave | the hand | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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