Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 81
Here the Moor stood still, threw open a folding-door and pushed the benumbed forester into a great salon.
Who acts: Moor · What happens: stand, throw, open, push, benumb · To what, where: folding door, benumbed forester, great salon
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 (Moor), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moor | det |
| 3 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 threw | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 10 | folding | folding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 folding | punct |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushed | cc |
| 14 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forester | det |
| 16 | benumbed | benumb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 forester | amod |
| 17 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushed | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 salon | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 salon | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 salon | amod |
| 21 | salon | salon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Moor | here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | throw | past | the Moor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | the Moor not said here | a folding door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | push | past | the Moor not said here | the benumbed forester | a great salon | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent forester=Theme into salon=Destination | |||
| 5 | benumb | participle | tree rules |
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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