Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 68
Silently the figure approached the thinking, dreaming Countess, on whose form the soft moonlight fell, and then twitched gently her garment with his tiny hand.
Who acts: figure, soft moonlight · What happens: approach, dream, fall, twitch · To what, where: thinking, Countess, form, garment
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 (figure, soft moonlight), 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 | Silently | silently | ADV | _ | 4 approached | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 figure | det |
| 3 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approached | nsubj |
| 4 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thinking | det |
| 6 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreaming | punct |
| 8 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 approached | advcl |
| 9 | Countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dreaming | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 form | case |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 form | nmod:poss |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moonlight | det |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moonlight | amod |
| 16 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 approached | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 twitched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 twitched | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 twitched | advmod |
| 21 | twitched | twitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | conj |
| 22 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 twitched | advmod |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 garment | nmod:poss |
| 24 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 twitched | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hand | amod |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 twitched | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the figure | the thinking | silently property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thinking=Theme | |||
| 2 | dream | gerund | the figure not said here | Countess | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countess=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the soft moonlight | form | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on form=Location | ||||
| 4 | twitch | past | the soft moonlight not said here | moonlight's garment | then | with figure's tiny hand; gently property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=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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