Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 22
Ernst hunted no more on the mountains, but stood dreaming on a high spot whence he could see her father's castle.
Who acts: Ernst · What happens: hunt, stand, dream, see · To what, where: more, mountains, high spot, castle
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), 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 | Ernst | Ernst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 hunted | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunted | conj |
| 11 | dreaming | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stood | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spot | amod |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dreaming | obl |
| 16 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 see | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dreaming | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 castle | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 father | case |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | Ernst | more | the mountains | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent more=Theme on mountain=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Ernst not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dream | gerund | Ernst not said here | a high spot | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | could | Ernst | impression's father's castle | whence property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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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