Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 20
The soft air fanned gently his glowing face, the birds sang in the thicket, and the gentle influence of the hour led him to slacken his pace.
Who acts: soft air, birds, gentle influence, air · What happens: fan, glow, sing, lead, slacken · To what, where: glowing face, thicket, air, pace
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft air, birds, gentle influence, air), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 air | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 air | amod |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fanned | nsubj |
| 4 | fanned | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 fanned | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 face | amod |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fanned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sang | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sang | nsubj |
| 12 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fanned | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 thicket | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thicket | det |
| 15 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sang | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 led | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 led | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 influence | det |
| 19 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 influence | amod |
| 20 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hour | det |
| 23 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 influence | nmod |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fanned | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 led | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 slacken | mark |
| 27 | slacken | slacken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 led | xcomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pace | nmod:poss |
| 29 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 slacken | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fanned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fan | past | the soft air | air's glowing face | gently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the birds | the thicket | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thicket=Location | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | the gentle influence of the hour | air | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | slacken | to-infinitive | air not said here | air's pace | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient |
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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