Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 95
"What a droll dream!" he cried, springing up and brushing the grass and moss from his clothes.
Who acts: guest · What happens: cry, spring up, brush · To what, where: droll dream, grass, clothes
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 (guest), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dream | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 dream | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dream | det |
| 4 | droll | droll | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dream | amod |
| 5 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 dream | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dream | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 springing | punct |
| 11 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 springing | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brushing | cc |
| 14 | brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 springing | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grass | det |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brushing | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 moss | cc |
| 18 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grass | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 clothes | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 brushing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | guest | what droll dream | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spring up | gerund | guest not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | brush | gerund | guest not said here | the grass and moss | guest's clothes | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent grass=Theme from clothes=Initial_Location |
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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