Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 50
Here they waited some time, when at last steps and voices were heard approaching through the lime-tree avenue.
Who acts: figures, last steps · What happens: wait, hear, approach · To what, where: last steps, tree avenue
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figures, last steps), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 heard | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 steps | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 steps | amod |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 voices | cc |
| 12 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 steps | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | conj |
| 15 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 heard | xcomp |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 avenue | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 avenue | det |
| 18 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 lime | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 avenue | compound |
| 21 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 approaching | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | figures = figure | here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | last steps and voices | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | last steps and voices not said here | the tree avenue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through avenue=Initial_Location |
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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