Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 29
Her father, returning from his journey, stepped out of the thicket, and came suddenly upon them.
Who acts: father · What happens: return, step out, come, journey · To what, where: journey, thicket
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 (father), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returning | punct |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 father | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returning | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 9 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 thicket | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 thicket | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thicket | det |
| 13 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stepped | conj |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | suspicion's father not said here | Father's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | step out | past | suspicion's father | the thicket | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thicket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | suspicion's father not said here | upon nymph; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | ||||
| 4 | journey | Father | nom journey «act 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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