Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 20

With a slight bow he passed the three men, and vanished through the iron door by which they had entered.

Who acts: rapier, men · What happens: pass, vanish, enter · To what, where: three men, iron door

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 (rapier, men), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 bow	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bow	det
3	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bow	amod
4	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passed	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 men	nummod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vanished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vanished	cc
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
15	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 door	amod
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 entered	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entered	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 entered	aux
21	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 door	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	rapier	the three men		with a slight bow	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Trajectory
2	vanish	past	rapier not said here		the iron door		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enter	past · perfect	men = man			by the iron door	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 20