Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 30
His first glance at the pair told him what had happened, and a smothered tone of anger forced itself from his trembling lips.
Who acts: first glance, smothered tone, Father · What happens: tell, happen, smother, force, glance, intonate · To what, where: Father, tone, trembling lips, pair, anger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (first glance, smothered tone, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 glance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 glance | amod |
| 3 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pair | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glance | nmod |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | aux |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forced | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tone | det |
| 15 | smothered | smother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tone | amod |
| 16 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forced | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 anger | case |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tone | nmod |
| 19 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | conj |
| 20 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 forced | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 lips | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lips | nmod:poss |
| 23 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lips | compound |
| 24 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 forced | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Father's first glance at the pair | Father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smother | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | force | past | a smothered tone of anger | tone | Father's trembling lips | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient | |||
| 5 | glance | Father | the pair | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place | |||||
| 6 | intonate | anger | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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