Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 96
But he stood as if transfixed, as he beheld the stag he wished for--the golden stag with great diamond eyes--lying in the grass beside him!
Who acts: guest · What happens: stand, transfix, behold, wish, lie · To what, where: stag, grass
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 transfixed | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 transfixed | mark |
| 6 | transfixed | transfix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beheld | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 beheld | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beheld | nsubj |
| 10 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stag | det |
| 12 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stag | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 wished | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 stag | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stag | det |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stag | amod |
| 19 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stag | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 22 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eyes | compound |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stag | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 lying | punct |
| 25 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 beheld | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 grass | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 grass | det |
| 28 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lying | obl |
| 29 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lying | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | guest | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | transfix a condition, not said to happen | participle | guest not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | behold | past | guest | the stag and the golden stag with great diamond eyes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | guest | the stag and the golden stag with great diamond eyes not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stag=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | guest not said here | the grass | beside guest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=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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