Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 36
She walked some distance in the direction of his cottage to a projection of the mountain, whence she could look down into the vale, and waited there for him.
Who acts: Jutta · What happens: walk, look down, wait, project · To what, where: distance, direction, mountain
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 distance | det |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 direction | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 direction | det |
| 7 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cottage | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 direction | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 projection | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 projection | det |
| 13 | projection | projection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 projection | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 look | punct |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 look | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 look | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 look | aux |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 walked | advcl |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 look | compound:prt |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 vale | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vale | det |
| 25 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 look | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 waited | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 waited | cc |
| 28 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 waited | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 waited | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Jutta | some distance | the direction of Ernst's cottage | to a projection of the mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent distance=Theme in direction=Trajectory to projection=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | look down | could | Jutta | into the vale; whence property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vale=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | Jutta not said here | there | for Ernst | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | project | the mountain | nom projection «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/17/36/