Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 85
The spirit vanished, and the Countess followed his advice; but troubled dreams sported around the head of the sleeping lady, and fantastic scenes passed before her fancy.
Who acts: spirit, Countess · What happens: vanish, follow, sport, pass, fancy · To what, where: troubled dreams, advice, head, fantastic scenes, fancy
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 (spirit, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 followed | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Countess | det |
| 7 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vanished | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 advice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 dreams | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 dreams | cc |
| 13 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dreams | amod |
| 14 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vanished | obl |
| 15 | sported | sport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dreams | acl |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sported | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lady | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lady | det |
| 21 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lady | compound |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 scenes | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 scenes | cc |
| 25 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 scenes | amod |
| 26 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vanished | obl |
| 27 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 scenes | acl |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 fancy | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 passed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the spirit | troubled dreams | fantastic scenes obl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the Countess | spirit's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sport | participle | troubled dreams not said here | the head of the sleeping lady | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | participle | fantastic scenes not said here | Countess's fancy | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fancy=Location | ||||
| 5 | fancy | Countess | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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