Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 85
He never could have satisfied his eyes with looking; and who knows how long he might have stood there, if through another door the three men had not entered whom he had so often seen near Scharzfels?
Who acts: tapestry, man · What happens: not satisfy, look, know, stand, not enter, see · To what, where: eyes, three men, door, Scharzfels · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tapestry, man), 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 | 5 satisfied | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 satisfied | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 satisfied | aux |
| 5 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 satisfied | obj |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 satisfied | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 knows | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knows | cc |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 knows | nsubj |
| 13 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | conj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stood | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stood | aux |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 knows | ccomp |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stood | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 entered | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 entered | mark |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 entered | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 men | det |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 men | nummod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 entered | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 entered | advmod |
| 31 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stood | conj |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 seen | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 seen | aux |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 seen | advmod |
| 36 | often | often | ADV | _ | 37 seen | advmod |
| 37 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 entered | conj |
| 38 | near | near | ADP | _ | 39 Scharzfels | case |
| 39 | Scharzfels | scharzfel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 seen | obl |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not satisfy | could · perfect | tapestry | tapestry's eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | tapestry not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | present | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stand | might · perfect | tapestry | there | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | not enter a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the three men | another door | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | man | Scharzfels | whom obj; often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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