Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 77
He climbed a marble flight of steps, and went on over costly carpets, so soft and smooth that he could not hear his own steps.
Who acts: fish · What happens: climb, go on, not hear, step · To what, where: marble flight, costly carpets, own steps
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 (fish), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flight | det |
| 4 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flight | amod |
| 5 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flight | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 carpets | case |
| 13 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 carpets | amod |
| 14 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soft | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 soft | advmod |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 climbed | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smooth | cc |
| 19 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soft | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 hear | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hear | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hear | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 hear | advmod |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 soft | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 steps | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 steps | amod |
| 27 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hear | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | fish | a marble flight of steps | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location flight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | fish not said here | costly carpets | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over carpet=Location | ||||
| 3 | not hear | could | fish | fish's own steps | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | step | fish | nom step «act 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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