Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 13
A large wolf hung on the neck of the almost prostrate horse, on whose back sat a charming maiden.
Who acts: large wolf, back · What happens: hang, sit · To what, where: neck, charming maiden
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 (large wolf, back), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 neck | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 neck | det |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 prostrate | advmod |
| 11 | prostrate | prostrate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 neck | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 sat | mark |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | nsubj |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hung | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 19 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maiden | amod |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | a large wolf | the neck of the prostrate horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | back | a charming maiden | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=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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