Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 102
The workmen paused and listened, when lo! a carriage appeared drawn rapidly by four doves.
Who acts: workmen, four doves · What happens: pause, listen, draw · To what, where: carriage
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workmen, four doves), 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 workmen | det |
| 2 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 listened | cc |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lo | advmod |
| 8 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 3 paused | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 carriage | det |
| 11 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drawn | aux:pass |
| 13 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 paused | parataxis |
| 14 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 13 drawn | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 doves | case |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 doves | nummod |
| 17 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drawn | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the workmen | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | the workmen not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw | past · passive | four doves | a carriage | rapidly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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