Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 49
Beneath, by the quiet hermitage, appeared the pious old hermit, looked reprovingly upon them, and shook his silver-white locks.
Who acts: quiet hermitage · What happens: appear, look, shake · To what, where: pious old hermit, white locks
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 (quiet hermitage), 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 | Beneath | beneath | INTJ | _ | 6 hermitage | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hermitage | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 hermitage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hermitage | det |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hermitage | amod |
| 6 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hermitage | punct |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hermit | det |
| 10 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hermit | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hermit | amod |
| 12 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appeared | conj |
| 15 | reprovingly | reprovingly | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shook | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shook | cc |
| 20 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appeared | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 locks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 white | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 silver | punct |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 locks | amod |
| 25 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shook | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the quiet hermitage | the pious old hermit | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hermit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the quiet hermitage not said here | upon knights = knight; reprovingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | the quiet hermitage not said here | hermitage's white locks | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lock=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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