Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 10
One day, as he had gone in the direction of Goslar, a singular howling fell upon his ear.
Who acts: Ernst, singular howling · What happens: go, fall · To what, where: One day, direction, ear
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ernst, singular howling), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 direction | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 direction | det |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Goslar | case |
| 12 | Goslar | Goslar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 direction | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 howling | det |
| 15 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 howling | amod |
| 16 | howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 ear | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ear | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Ernst | One day not said here | the direction of Goslar | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | a singular howling | Ernst's ear | day | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location |
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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