Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 36
The presence of the pygmean ruler was indeed so commanding, that Herr Neubauer himself involuntarily uncovered his head before him.
Who acts: presence, Herr Neubauer · What happens: command, uncover · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (presence, Herr Neubauer), 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 presence | det |
| 2 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commanding | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ruler | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ruler | det |
| 5 | pygmean | pygmean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ruler | amod |
| 6 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 presence | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 commanding | aux |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 commanding | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 commanding | advmod |
| 10 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 uncovered | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 uncovered | mark |
| 13 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Neubauer | compound |
| 14 | Neubauer | Neubauer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 uncovered | nsubj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 Neubauer | nmod |
| 16 | involuntarily | involuntarily | ADV | _ | 17 uncovered | advmod |
| 17 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 commanding | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uncovered | obj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 uncovered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 commanding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past · progressive | the presence of the pygmean ruler | indeed property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | uncover | past | Herr Neubauer Neubauer | Neubauer's head | before presence | involuntarily property | tree rules |
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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