Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 112
Suddenly the affrighted maidens see the glitter of arms in the faint moonlight.
Who acts: affrighted maidens · What happens: affright, see · To what, where: glitter
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affrighted maidens), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maidens | det |
| 3 | affrighted | affright | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 maidens | amod |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glitter | det |
| 7 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glitter | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moonlight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moonlight | det |
| 12 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moonlight | amod |
| 13 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arms | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affright | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see | present | the affrighted maidens | the glitter of arms in the faint moonlight | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glitter=Stimulus |
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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