Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 69
Alarmed, the Countess turned round, but lost all fear so soon as she beheld the form of the grey man.
Who acts: Countess · What happens: alarm, turn round, lose, behold, form · To what, where: fear, form, grey man
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), 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 | Alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turned | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alarmed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Countess | det |
| 4 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lost | cc |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 fear | det |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 lost | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 beheld | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beheld | nsubj |
| 16 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soon | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 form | det |
| 18 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beheld | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 form | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | participle | the Countess not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn round | past | the Countess | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | the Countess not said here | all fear | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | behold | past | Countess | the form of the grey man | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | form | the grey man | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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