Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 75
He did not venture to enter, but stood timidly near the door, hoping that some one might take pity on his condition.
Who acts: darkness, one · What happens: not venture, enter, stand, hope, take, condition · To what, where: door, pity, condition · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darkness, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 venture | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 venture | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 venture | advmod |
| 4 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 enter | mark |
| 6 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 venture | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 venture | parataxis |
| 10 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 9 stood | advmod |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hoping | punct |
| 15 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stood | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hoping | ccomp |
| 21 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 condition | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 condition | nmod:poss |
| 24 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not venture | past · do-support | darkness | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | darkness not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the door | timidly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=Location | ||||
| 4 | hope | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | take | might | some one | pity | darkness's condition | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on condition=Destination | |||
| 6 | condition | darkness | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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