Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 39
With swelling breast, breathless, Schlosser till now had looked on all that had passed; but at this fearful sight the last spark of firmness failed him, he closed his eyes and sank lifeless on the ground.
Who acts: that, last spark, spark, firmness · What happens: look, pass, fail, close, sink, spark · To what, where: Schlosser, fearful sight, eyes, ground
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 (that, last spark, spark, firmness), 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 | _ | 3 breast | case |
| 2 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breast | compound |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breathless | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 breast | punct |
| 5 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Schlosser | punct |
| 7 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 breathless | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 looked | mark |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 looked | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | aux |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 breathless | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 passed | mark |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 passed | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 passed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 passed | aux |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 looked | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 failed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 failed | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 sight | det |
| 21 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sight | amod |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 failed | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spark | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spark | amod |
| 25 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 failed | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 firmness | case |
| 27 | firmness | firmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spark | nmod |
| 28 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breathless | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 failed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 closed | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 closed | nsubj |
| 32 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 failed | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 closed | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sank | cc |
| 36 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 failed | conj |
| 37 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sank | xcomp |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 ground | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ground | det |
| 40 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sank | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 breathless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fail | past | the last spark of firmness | Schlosser | this fearful sight | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | close | past | spark | spark's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sink | past | the last spark of firmness not said here | the ground | lifeless property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | spark | firmness | nom spark «event 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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