Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 118
"'Tis but the frightened deer."
What happens: frighten · To what, where: Tis
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 deer | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 deer | amod |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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