Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 86
The figure waved the hand, glanced kindly at the sleeping children, set down a peculiar shaped basket on a table, drew a cross over the mother, and vanished.
Who acts: figure, sleeping children · What happens: wave, glance, set down, shape, draw, vanish · To what, where: hand, shaped basket, table, cross
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 (figure, sleeping children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 figure | det |
| 2 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | nsubj |
| 3 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 glanced | punct |
| 7 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | conj |
| 8 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 7 glanced | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 children | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 11 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 children | compound |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glanced | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 children | acl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 basket | det |
| 17 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaped | compound |
| 18 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 basket | amod |
| 19 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 table | det |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 basket | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drew | punct |
| 24 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cross | det |
| 26 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drew | obj |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 mother | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mother | det |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drew | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 vanished | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 vanished | cc |
| 32 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the figure | the hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | glance | past | the figure not said here | at the sleeping children; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set down | participle | the sleeping children not said here | a shaped basket | a table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme on table=Destination | |||
| 4 | shape | participle | peculiar compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | draw | past | the figure not said here | a cross | over the mother | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme | |||
| 6 | vanish | past | the figure not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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