Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 2
Schlosser promised, and the three crossed cautiously the dangerous bridge, and entered a cave filled with the most horrible vermin.
Who acts: Schlosser, three · What happens: promise, cross, enter, fill · To what, where: dangerous bridge, cave
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 (Schlosser, three), 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 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crossed | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crossed | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 three | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 crossed | nsubj |
| 7 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 8 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 7 crossed | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridge | det |
| 10 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bridge | amod |
| 11 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entered | cc |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cave | det |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cave | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 vermin | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vermin | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 horrible | advmod |
| 21 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vermin | amod |
| 22 | vermin | vermin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Schlosser | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cross | past | the three | the dangerous bridge | cautiously property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | |||
| 3 | enter | past | Schlosser not said here | a cave | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | a cave not said here | with the horrible vermin | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with vermin=Instrument |
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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