Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 50
Like an eagle, the noble animal leaps the yawning abyss, lands safely on the other side, and impressing its giant hoof-print in the granite, sinks exhausted, but the Princess loses her _goldene Krone_ in the gulf beneath the Bode Kessel!
Who acts: noble animal, Princess, animal · What happens: leap, yawn, land, impress, sink, exhaust · To what, where: yawning abyss, other side, giant hoof print, granite, goldene, gulf
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 (noble animal, Princess, animal), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 eagle | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaps | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eagle | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaps | nsubj |
| 8 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 abyss | det |
| 10 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 abyss | amod |
| 11 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaps | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lands | punct |
| 13 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 leaps | conj |
| 14 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 13 lands | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 side | amod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lands | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 impressing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 impressing | cc |
| 21 | impressing | impress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 leaps | advcl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 print | nmod:poss |
| 23 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 print | amod |
| 24 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 print | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 hoof | punct |
| 26 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 impressing | obj | ||
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 granite | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 granite | det |
| 29 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 print | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sinks | punct |
| 31 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 leaps | parataxis |
| 32 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sinks | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 loses | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 loses | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Princess | det |
| 36 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 loses | nsubj |
| 37 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sinks | conj |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 goldene | nmod:poss |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 goldene | punct |
| 40 | goldene | goldene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 loses | obj |
| 41 | Krone | Krone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 goldene | appos |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 loses | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 gulf | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 gulf | det |
| 45 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 loses | obl |
| 46 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 49 Kessel | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Kessel | det |
| 48 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Kessel | compound |
| 49 | Kessel | Kessel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 gulf | nmod |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | present | the noble animal | the yawning abyss | like a eagle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme abyss=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | yawn | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | land | present | the noble animal not said here | the other side | safely property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 4 | impress | gerund | the noble animal not said here | animal's giant hoof print | the granite | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus print=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | sink | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | exhaust | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | lose | present | the Princess | Princess's goldene | the gulf beneath the Bode Kessel | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldene=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | animal | the granite | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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