Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 15
Quickly the youth thrust his hunting-knife in the beast, and the bowlings ceased.
What happens: cease · To what, where: bowlings, hunting knife
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: 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 knife | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thrust | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrust | compound |
| 4 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knife | nsubj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knife | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hunting | punct |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 beast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beast | det |
| 11 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knife | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bowlings | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bowlings | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bowlings | det |
| 15 | bowlings | bowling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knife | appos |
| 16 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bowlings | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | participle | the bowlings not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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