Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 57
Then the veins on the master's forehead swelled with shame; rage and fury to find himself excelled by his pupil filled his usually mild heart.
Who acts: veins, Stolberg, pupil · What happens: swell, find, excel, fill · To what, where: rage, Stolberg, mild heart
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 (veins, Stolberg, pupil), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 swelled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 veins | det |
| 3 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swelled | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 forehead | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 master | case |
| 8 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 veins | nmod |
| 9 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 shame | case |
| 11 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swelled | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 rage | punct |
| 13 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swelled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fury | cc |
| 15 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rage | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 swelled | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | excelled | excel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 find | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 filled | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | nsubj |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 excelled | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 26 mild | advmod |
| 26 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 heart | amod |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | past | the veins on the master's forehead | rage and fury | then | with shame | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the veins on the master's forehead not said here | Stolberg | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | excel | participle | Stolberg not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fill | past | Stolberg's pupil | Stolberg's mild heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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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