Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 117
He followed Henry to the Staufenburg, watched four whole days in the thick woods, and the evening of the fourth day, to his utter amazement, recognised Eva von Trotta in the stone balcony by Henry's side.
Who acts: Henry · What happens: follow, watch, recognise, amaze · To what, where: Henry, Staufenburg, thick woods, Eva, stone balcony
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 (Henry), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Staufenburg | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Staufenburg | det |
| 6 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watched | punct |
| 8 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watched | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woods | det |
| 14 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woods | amod |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watched | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 evening | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 evening | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 evening | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 recognised | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 amazement | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 27 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 amazement | amod |
| 28 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 recognised | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 amazement | punct |
| 30 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watched | conj |
| 31 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 recognised | obj |
| 32 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 31 Eva | flat |
| 33 | Trotta | Trotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Eva | flat |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 balcony | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 balcony | det |
| 36 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 balcony | compound |
| 37 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 recognised | obl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 side | case |
| 39 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 side | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Henry | case |
| 41 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 recognised | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Henry | Henry | the Staufenburg | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent henry=Theme to staufenburg=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | watch | past | the thick woods | day; evening | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 3 | recognise | past | Eva | the stone balcony | to Henry's utter amazement; by Henry's side | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eva=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | amaze | Henry | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: 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.
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