Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 42
It was as if a clear harmonious voice called back every note that flew from the strings.
Who acts: lute, clear harmonious voice, note · What happens: be, call back, fly · To what, where: clear harmonious voice, note, strings
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 (lute, clear harmonious voice, note), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 voice | cop |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 voice | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 voice | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 7 | harmonious | harmonious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 voice | acl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 note | det |
| 12 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 note | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 strings | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 strings | det |
| 17 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flew | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lute | a clear harmonious voice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call back speech: assert | participle | a clear harmonious voice not said here | every note | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | every note | the strings | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from string=Trajectory |
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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