Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 23
A moment Romar stood rooted to the ground; then coming to his senses, he followed the fleeing maiden, and, soon overtaking her, quieted her fears by kind and honest words; and this first meeting gave rise to many others.
Who acts: moment, Romar, first meeting, race · What happens: stand, root, come, follow, overtake, quiet · To what, where: senses, fleeing maiden, race, fears, rise, many others
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 (moment, Romar, first meeting, race), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | Romar | Romar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | appos |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rooted | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 coming | advmod |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 senses | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 senses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 coming | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 19 | fleeing | fleeing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maiden | compound |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 overtaking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overtaking | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 overtaking | advmod |
| 25 | overtaking | overtake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 overtaking | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 quieted | punct |
| 28 | quieted | quiet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fears | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 quieted | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 words | case |
| 32 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 words | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 honest | cc |
| 34 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 kind | conj |
| 35 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 quieted | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 gave | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 gave | cc |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 meeting | det |
| 39 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 meeting | amod |
| 40 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gave | nsubj |
| 41 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 42 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gave | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 others | case |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 others | amod |
| 45 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 gave | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a moment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | root | participle | a moment not said here | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a moment not said here | Romar's senses | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sens=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | follow | past | Romar | the fleeing maiden | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 5 | overtake | gerund | a moment not said here | race | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | quiet | past | race's fears | by kind words | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 7 | give | past | this first meeting | rise | many others | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to other=Recipient | |||
| 8 | fear | race | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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