Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 66
Then, out of a corner of the chamber, with light, noiseless steps, issued an odd being, a little man, with an old, wrinkled face, a long grey beard, but with not disagreeable features.
What happens: issue, be, wrinkle · To what, where: odd little man, corner
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 corner | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chamber | det |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 light | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steps | punct |
| 14 | noiseless | noiseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steps | amod |
| 15 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 light | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 issued | punct |
| 17 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 corner | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 19 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 man | cop |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 issued | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 face | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 face | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 face | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 face | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 old | punct |
| 30 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 face | amod |
| 31 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 beard | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 beard | det |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beard | amod |
| 35 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beard | amod |
| 36 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 face | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 features | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 features | cc |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 features | case |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 disagreeable | advmod |
| 41 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 features | amod |
| 42 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 corner | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 corner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | a odd little man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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