Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 76
The forester followed like one in a dream, resisting, yet drawn on by an irresistible, enchanting power, until they reached a colossal castle, built in a style perfectly unknown to him.
Who acts: forester · What happens: follow, resist, draw on, enchant, reach, build · To what, where: dream, colossal castle
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 forester | det |
| 2 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 followed | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dream | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dream | det |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 resisting | punct |
| 10 | resisting | resist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 followed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drawn | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 drawn | cc |
| 13 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 resisting | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 drawn | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 power | det |
| 17 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 power | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enchanting | punct |
| 19 | enchanting | enchant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 power | amod |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawn | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reached | punct |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 reached | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reached | nsubj |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drawn | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 26 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 castle | amod |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 built | punct |
| 29 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 castle | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 style | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 style | det |
| 32 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 built | obl |
| 33 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 34 unknown | advmod |
| 34 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 style | amod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 unknown | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the forester | a dream | like one | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dream=Location | |||
| 2 | resist | gerund | the forester not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draw on | participle | by a irresistible enchanting power | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | enchant | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | reach | past | Forester | a colossal castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | build | participle | a colossal castle not said here | in a style | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in style=Attribute |
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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