Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 33
The following day was nearly gone, and evening had sent on her shadow before her.
Who acts: following day, Jutta · What happens: follow, be, send, shadow · To what, where: evening, shadow
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 (following day, Jutta), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gone | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shadow | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the following day | gone, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | past · perfect · passive | evening | Jutta's shadow | before Jutta | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | shadow | Jutta | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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