Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 22
Silently admiring, Romar gazed at the sleeping beauty, and the sweetest emotions filled his breast, till the stranger opened her eyes and beheld him, uttered a scream of terror, sprang up, and fled into the thickest of the forest.
Who acts: Romar, sweetest emotions, stranger, terror · What happens: admire, gaze, sleep, fill, open, behold · To what, where: breast, eyes, Romar, scream, thickest
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 (Romar, sweetest emotions, stranger, terror), 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 | Silently | silently | ADV | _ | 2 admiring | advmod |
| 2 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gazed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 admiring | punct |
| 4 | Romar | Romar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gazed | nsubj |
| 5 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beauty | det |
| 8 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 beauty | amod |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gazed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emotions | det |
| 13 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 emotions | amod |
| 14 | emotions | emotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 filled | nsubj |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gazed | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 opened | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 opened | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 opened | nsubj |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 opened | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beheld | cc |
| 26 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 opened | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beheld | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 uttered | punct |
| 29 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beheld | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 scream | det |
| 31 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 uttered | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 terror | case |
| 33 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 scream | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sprang | punct |
| 35 | sprang | sprang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 uttered | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 sprang | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fled | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 fled | cc |
| 39 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gazed | conj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 thickest | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 thickest | det |
| 42 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 fled | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 forest | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 forest | det |
| 45 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 thickest | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | gerund | Romar not said here | silently property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | Romar | at the sleeping beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fill | past | the sweetest emotions | Romar's breast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breast=Patient | ||||
| 5 | open | past | the stranger | race's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 6 | behold | past | the stranger not said here | Romar | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | utter speech: other | past | the stranger not said here | a scream of terror | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scream=Topic | ||||
| 8 | sprang up | infinitive | the stranger not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | flee | past | Romar not said here | the thickest of the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into thick=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | scream | terror | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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