Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 14

To see this, and with practised hand to throw the javelin in the body of the beast of prey, that he sank at the feet of the horse, was the work of an instant.

Who acts: back · What happens: see, practise, throw, sink, be · To what, where: this, javelin, body, feet, work

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 (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	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 see	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hand	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hand	cc
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 throw	mark
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hand	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 javelin	det
12	javelin	javelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throw	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 body	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 body	det
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throw	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 beast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beast	det
18	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 body	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 prey	case
20	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beast	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sank	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sank	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sank	nsubj
24	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feet	det
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sank	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 horse	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 work	punct
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 work	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 work	det
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sank	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 instant	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 instant	det
37	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 work	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		this		with practised hand	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	practise	participle					tree rules
3	throw	to-infinitive		the javelin	the body of the beast of prey		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent javelin=Theme in body=Destination
4	sink	past	back		the feet of the horse		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past		the work		of a instant	tree rules

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 14

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 14