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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 28

He would have added more, but Schlosser, who went on before, uttered a cry of horror, and the hearts of the two friends sank within them, although what they saw they had seen already eighteen times.

Who acts: child, Schlosser, hearts, eyes, horror · What happens: add, go on, utter, sink, see, cry · To what, where: more, cry · 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 (child, Schlosser, hearts, eyes), 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

nsubjauxauxobjpunctccnsubjpunctnsubjacl:relcladvmodadvmodpunctconjdetobjcasenmodpunctccdetnsubjcasedetnummodnmodadvclcaseoblpunctmarkparataxisnsubjacl:relclnsubjauxccompadvmodnummodobl:unmarkedpunctrootHePRONwouldAUXhaveAUXaddedVERBmoreADJ,PUNCTbutCCONJSchlosserPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwentVERBonADVbeforeADV,PUNCTutteredVERBaDETcryNOUNofADPhorrorNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETheartsNOUNofADPtheDETtwoNUMfriendsNOUNsankVERBwithinADPthemPRON,PUNCTalthoughSCONJwhatPRONtheyPRONsawVERBtheyPRONhadAUXseenVERBalreadyADVeighteenNUMtimesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 addednsubj
2wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin4 addedaux
3havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf4 addedaux
4addedaddVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
5moremoreADJDegree=Cmp4 addedobj
6,,PUNCT_15 utteredpunct
7butbutCCONJ_15 utteredcc
8SchlosserSchlosserPROPNNumber=Sing15 utterednsubj
9,,PUNCT_11 wentpunct
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 wentnsubj
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 Schlosseracl:relcl
12ononADV_11 wentadvmod
13beforebeforeADV_11 wentadvmod
14,,PUNCT_8 Schlosserpunct
15utteredutterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 addedconj
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 crydet
17crycryNOUNNumber=Sing15 utteredobj
18ofofADP_19 horrorcase
19horrorhorrorNOUNNumber=Sing17 crynmod
20,,PUNCT_28 sankpunct
21andandCCONJ_28 sankcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 heartsdet
23heartsheartNOUNNumber=Plur28 sanknsubj
24ofofADP_27 friendscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 friendsdet
26twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 friendsnummod
27friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur23 heartsnmod
28sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 utteredadvcl
29withinwithinADP_30 themcase
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 sankobl
31,,PUNCT_33 whatpunct
32althoughalthoughSCONJ_33 whatmark
33whatwhatPRONPronType=Int28 sankparataxis
34theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 sawnsubj
35sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 whatacl:relcl
36theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs38 seennsubj
37hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 seenaux
38seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part35 sawccomp
39alreadyalreadyADV_40 eighteenadvmod
40eighteeneighteenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card41 timesnummod
41timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur38 seenobl:unmarked
42..PUNCT_4 addedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1add speech: assertwould · perfectchildmorevn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2go onpastSchlosserbefore propertyvn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3utter speech: otherpastSchlossera cry of horrorvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
4sinkpastthe hearts of the two friendswithin eyes = eye; what parataxisvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5seepasteyes = eyevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6seepast · perfecteyes = eyetimevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7cryhorrornom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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