Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 83
The Earl, surprised, glanced around the circle and met grim looks and frowning faces.
What happens: glance, meet, frown · To what, where: grim looks
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earl | det |
| 2 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glanced | punct |
| 6 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 surprised | conj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 circle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 circle | det |
| 9 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glanced | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 met | cc |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glanced | conj |
| 12 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looks | amod |
| 13 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 met | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 faces | cc |
| 15 | frowning | frown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 faces | amod |
| 16 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looks | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | participle | around the circle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around circle=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | grim looks and frowning faces | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | frown | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
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