Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 12
He hurried in the direction of the neighing and howling, where he heard at the same time a female voice crying for help.
Who acts: Ernst, female voice · What happens: hurry, neigh, howl, hear, cry · To what, where: direction
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, female voice), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 direction | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 direction | det |
| 5 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hurried | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 the | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 direction | nmod |
| 8 | neighing | neigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 the | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 howling | cc |
| 10 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 neighing | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 heard | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 howling | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 20 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 voice | amod |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nmod |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 voice | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 help | case |
| 24 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crying | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | Ernst | the direction of the | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | neigh | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | howl | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hear | past | Ernst | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | a female voice not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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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