Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 73
From a side path a purple stork came forward with solemn gravity, twisted the long neck up and down to affected compliment, scraped with his thin legs behind him, and then walked resolutely before the forester and the conducting Moor, looking almost constantly back to see if they were following.
Who acts: purple stork, Forester · What happens: come forward, twist, scrape, walk, conduct, look · To what, where: side path, long neck, affected compliment, forester
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 (purple stork, Forester), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 path | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 path | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 path | compound |
| 4 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stork | det |
| 6 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stork | amod |
| 7 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gravity | case |
| 11 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gravity | amod |
| 12 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 twisted | punct |
| 14 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 neck | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 neck | amod |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twisted | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 twisted | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 down | cc |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 up | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 compliment | case |
| 22 | affected | affected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 compliment | amod |
| 23 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twisted | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scraped | punct |
| 25 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 compliment | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 legs | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 legs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 legs | amod |
| 29 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 scraped | obl |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 legs | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 walked | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 walked | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 walked | advmod |
| 35 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 36 | resolutely | resolutely | ADV | _ | 35 walked | advmod |
| 37 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 forester | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 forester | det |
| 39 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 walked | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Moor | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Moor | det |
| 42 | conducting | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 Moor | amod |
| 43 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 forester | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 looking | punct |
| 45 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 walked | advcl |
| 46 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 47 constantly | advmod |
| 47 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 48 back | advmod |
| 48 | back | back | ADV | _ | 45 looking | advmod |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 see | mark |
| 50 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 looking | advcl |
| 51 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 54 following | mark |
| 52 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 following | nsubj |
| 53 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 following | aux |
| 54 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 50 see | ccomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | a purple stork | a side path | with solemn gravity; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from path=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | twist | past | a purple stork not said here | the long neck | affected compliment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent neck=Theme to compliment=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | scrape | participle | affected compliment not said here | with stork's thin legs behind stork | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with leg=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | a purple stork not said here | the forester and the conducting Moor | then | resolutely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before forester=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | conduct | gerund | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | look | gerund | a purple stork not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | a purple stork not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | follow a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | Forester | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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