Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 78
Many crowd forward to offer their congratulations, but, in the background of the hall one sees a group of knights with frowning brows.
Who acts: Many, background, guests · What happens: crowd, offer, see, frown, congratulate · To what, where: congratulations, group, brows
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 (Many, background, guests), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 crowd | nsubj |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 crowd | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 offer | mark |
| 5 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 crowd | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 congratulations | nmod:poss |
| 7 | congratulations | congratulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 offer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sees | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sees | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 background | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 background | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 background | det |
| 13 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sees | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 background | nmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hall | flat |
| 18 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crowd | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 group | det |
| 20 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sees | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 knights | case |
| 22 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 group | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 24 frowning | mark |
| 24 | frowning | frown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sees | advcl |
| 25 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 frowning | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crowd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | present | Many | forward property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | Many not said here | guests's congratulations | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent congratulation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | present | the background of the hall | a group of knights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer group=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | frown | gerund | the background of the hall not said here | brows | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | congratulate | guests = guest | nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/2/78/