Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 47
St. John's Eve, Frau Anna and her husband, full of curiosity, together with the servants, hid themselves near the bridge to see the dwarfs march over.
Who acts: John, dwarfs · What happens: hide, see, march over · To what, where: servants, bridge · 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 (John, dwarfs), 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 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 John | nmod:desc |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 John | case |
| 4 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 John | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Anna | punct |
| 6 | Frau | Frau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Anna | compound |
| 7 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 John | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 husband | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Anna | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 John | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 curiosity | case |
| 14 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 servants | punct |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 servants | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 servants | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 servants | det |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 John | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 John | punct |
| 21 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 hid | obj |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 bridge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bridge | det |
| 25 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hid | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hid | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dwarfs | det |
| 29 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 march | nsubj |
| 30 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | ccomp |
| 31 | over | over | ADV | _ | 30 march | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | John St. and Frau Anna and John's husband and the servants | servants = servant | the bridge | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient near bridge=Location | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | John St. and Frau Anna and John's husband and the servants not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | march over | present | the dwarfs | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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