Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 21
The dwarfs wept, and pleaded so pitifully to be released, that Adam's mild heart grew soft; but a glance at his field hardened it again, and he took his trembling prisoners home with him.
Who acts: dwarfs, mild heart, glance · What happens: weep, plead, release, grow, harden, take · To what, where: heart, trembling prisoners
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, mild heart, glance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dwarfs | det |
| 2 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleaded | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pleaded | cc |
| 6 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 pitifully | advmod |
| 8 | pitifully | pitifully | ADV | _ | 6 pleaded | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 released | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 released | aux:pass |
| 11 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pleaded | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 grew | mark |
| 14 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Adam | case |
| 16 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heart | amod |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 released | conj |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grew | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 hardened | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 hardened | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 glance | det |
| 23 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hardened | nsubj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 field | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 field | nmod:poss |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glance | nmod |
| 27 | hardened | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hardened | obj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 hardened | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 took | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 took | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 took | nsubj |
| 33 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 35 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 prisoners | amod |
| 36 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 took | obj |
| 37 | home | home | ADV | _ | 33 took | advmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 took | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the dwarfs | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | the dwarfs not said here | pitifully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | release | to-infinitive · passive | the dwarfs not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING» | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | Adam's mild heart | soft property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | harden | past | a glance at glance's field | heart | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | take | past | glance | glance's trembling prisoners | with Adam; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme | |||
| 7 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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