Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 65
She opened the window, and gazed at the shining moon, sank in thought, and did not observe that the moments fled swiftly, and midnight and the owls already hovered over her head.
Who acts: Countess, moments, owls · What happens: open, gaze, shine, sink, not observe, flee · To what, where: window, thought, head
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 (Countess, moments, owls), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 window | det |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gazed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gazed | cc |
| 7 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moon | det |
| 10 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 moon | amod |
| 11 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sank | punct |
| 13 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gazed | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sank | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 observe | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 observe | cc |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 observe | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 observe | advmod |
| 20 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gazed | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 fled | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moments | det |
| 23 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fled | nsubj |
| 24 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 observe | advcl |
| 25 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 24 fled | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 midnight | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 midnight | cc |
| 28 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hovered | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 owls | det |
| 31 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hovered | nsubj |
| 32 | already | already | ADV | _ | 33 hovered | advmod |
| 33 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hovered | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Countess | the window | midnight | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||
| 2 | gaze | past | at the shining moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sink | past | thought | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not observe | past · do-support | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | flee | past | the moments | swiftly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hover | past | the owls | Countess's head | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
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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