Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 115
And hastily assuming her disguise, for footsteps were heard approaching, she hurried away.
Who acts: footsteps, person · What happens: assume, hear, approach, hurry away · To what, where: disguise, footsteps
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footsteps, person), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 assuming | cc |
| 2 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 assuming | advmod |
| 3 | assuming | assume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 disguise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assuming | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 heard | case |
| 8 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux:pass |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 assuming | parataxis |
| 11 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 heard | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurried | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hurried | nsubj |
| 14 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 hurried | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assuming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | gerund | person's disguise | hastily property | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | footsteps | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | footsteps not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hurry away | past | person | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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