Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 38
Finding comfort in the tones, the harmonies grew louder and louder, and she listened with joy to the tones, now fancying them the voice of the nightingale or the thrush.
Who acts: harmonies, Jutta · What happens: find, grow, listen, fancy · To what, where: comfort, tones, harmonies
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 (harmonies, 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 | Finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 grew | advcl |
| 2 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finding | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tones | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tones | det |
| 5 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comfort | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finding | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 harmonies | det |
| 8 | harmonies | harmony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 louder | cc |
| 12 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 louder | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 listened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 listened | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 listened | nsubj |
| 16 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 joy | case |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 listened | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tones | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tones | det |
| 21 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 listened | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fancying | punct |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 fancying | advmod |
| 24 | fancying | fancy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 grew | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fancying | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 voice | det |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fancying | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 nightingale | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nightingale | det |
| 30 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 voice | nmod |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 thrush | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 thrush | det |
| 33 | thrush | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nightingale | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | the harmonies not said here | comfort | the tones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the harmonies | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | listen | past | Jutta | with joy; to the tones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fancy | gerund | the harmonies not said here | harmonies = harmony | now | the voice of the nightingale or the thrush obj | 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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