Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 47
Backward is to fall into the arms of the enemy.
What happens: be · To what, where: arms
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 | Backward | backward | ADV | _ | 4 fall | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fall | mark |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arms | det |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 enemy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 enemy | det |
| 10 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arms | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the arms of the enemy | backward, fall property | tree rules |
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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