Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 131
Smiling, they gave each other the hand, feeling the hour of reunion was come, and in the morning they were found dead, hand in hand.
Who acts: trees, hour · What happens: smile, give, feel, be, find · To what, where: other hand, trees, hand
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 (trees, hour), 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 | Smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Smiling | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hand | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hand | amod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feeling | punct |
| 10 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hour | det |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reunion | case |
| 14 | reunion | reunion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hour | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | cop |
| 16 | come | come | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feeling | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux:pass |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dead | punct |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | gerund | trees = tree not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | trees = tree | each other hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | trees = tree not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the hour of reunion | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | trees = tree | hand | morning | dead hand obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme hand=Attribute |
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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