Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 9
In the next cave they stood still, drew a long breath, looked anxiously at each other, and put down their lamps.
Who acts: caves · What happens: stand, draw, look, put down · To what, where: next cave, long breath, lamps
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 (caves), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cave | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cave | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cave | amod |
| 4 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 stood | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 breath | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breath | amod |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 15 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 each | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 each | fixed |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 put | compound:prt |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lamps | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 put | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | caves = cave | the next cave | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location | |||
| 2 | draw | past | caves = cave not said here | a long breath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | caves = cave not said here | at each; anxiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put down | participle | caves = cave not said here | caves's lamps | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lamp=Goal |
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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