Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 41
He listened amazed to the tones, which floated to meet him, sounding entirely different from anything he had ever heard from Jutta's lute before.
Who acts: tones, Ernst · What happens: amaze, float, meet, sound, hear · To what, where: Ernst, lute
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 (tones, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 amazed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 amazed | aux:pass |
| 3 | amazed | amaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tones | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tones | det |
| 6 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 amazed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 floated | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 floated | nsubj |
| 9 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tones | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 floated | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meet | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sounding | punct |
| 14 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 floated | advcl |
| 15 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 16 different | advmod |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sounding | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 anything | case |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 different | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 heard | advmod |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 anything | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 lute | case |
| 24 | Jutta | Jutta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lute | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Jutta | case |
| 26 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obl |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 heard | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amaze | past · passive | Ernst | to the tones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | float | past | the tones | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the tones not said here | Ernst | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | sound | gerund | the tones not said here | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | Ernst | Jutta's lute | ever | before property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from lute=Source |
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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