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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 113

He thought he had struck the bird, but it flew away, and he followed it to the top of the mountain where it disappeared.

Who acts: youngest, bird · What happens: think, strike, fly away, follow, disappear · To what, where: bird, top · 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 (youngest, bird), 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

nsubjnsubjauxccompdetobjpunctccnsubjparataxisadvmodpunctccnsubjparataxisobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodadvmodnsubjacl:relclpunctrootHePRONthoughtVERBhePRONhadAUXstruckVERBtheDETbirdNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJitPRONflewVERBawayADV,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONfollowedVERBitPRONtoADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPtheDETmountainNOUNwhereADVitPRONdisappearedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 thoughtnsubj
2thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 strucknsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 struckaux
5struckstrikeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 thoughtccomp
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 birddet
7birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing5 struckobj
8,,PUNCT_11 flewpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 flewcc
10ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 flewnsubj
11flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 thoughtparataxis
12awayawayADV_11 flewadvmod
13,,PUNCT_16 followedpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 followedcc
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 followednsubj
16followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 thoughtparataxis
17ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 followedobj
18totoADP_20 topcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 topdet
20toptopNOUNNumber=Sing16 followedobl
21ofofADP_23 mountaincase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 mountaindet
23mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing20 topnmod
24wherewhereADVPronType=Rel26 disappearedadvmod
25ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 disappearednsubj
26disappeareddisappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 mountainacl:relcl
27..PUNCT_2 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastyoungest = youngvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2strikepast · perfectyoungest = youngthe birdvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bird=Instrument
3fly awaypastbirdaway propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4followpastyoungest = youngbirdthe top of the mountainvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to top=Trajectory
5disappearpastbirdvn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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