Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 1
They wandered on until they had reached the beam--the fatal beam--where they stood still, and the men warned Schlosser solemnly, if his life was dear to him, to utter no sound till they had passed the next two caves.
Who acts: They, men, life · What happens: wander, reach, stand, warn, be, utter · To what, where: beam, Schlosser, sound, men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, men, life), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | aux |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wandered | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beam | det |
| 9 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 beam | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beam | det |
| 12 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beam | amod |
| 13 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beam | appos |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beam | acl:relcl |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 warned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 warned | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 warned | nsubj |
| 23 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | conj |
| 24 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 warned | obj |
| 25 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 23 warned | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dear | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 dear | mark |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dear | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dear | cop |
| 31 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 warned | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dear | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 utter | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 utter | mark |
| 36 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 warned | ccomp |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 sound | det |
| 38 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 utter | obj |
| 39 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 42 passed | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 passed | aux |
| 42 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 utter | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 caves | det |
| 44 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 caves | amod |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 caves | nummod |
| 46 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 passed | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | They | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect | they | the beam | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent beam=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | they | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | past | the men | Schlosser | solemnly property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent schlosser=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Schlosser's life | Schlosser | dear property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | utter speech: other | to-infinitive | no sound | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | |||||
| 7 | pass | past · perfect · passive | men = man | the next two caves obj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient cave=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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