Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 106
Directly after came a fellow in a trough along the same road, saying hurriedly: "Shall I not also come?" and made the most desperate efforts to reach the dove-drawn carriage.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: come, say, not come, make, reach, draw · To what, where: desperate efforts, drawn carriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fellow), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 trough | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 trough | det |
| 8 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fellow | nmod |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 road | amod |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trough | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 15 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 14 saying | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 18 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 come | advmod |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 efforts | det |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 desperate | advmod |
| 29 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 efforts | amod |
| 30 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 reach | mark |
| 32 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 made | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 carriage | det |
| 34 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 drawn | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 dove | punct |
| 36 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 carriage | amod |
| 37 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reach | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a fellow in a trough along the same road | directly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | gerund | a fellow in a trough along the same road not said here | hurriedly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | shall | a fellow in a trough along the same road = fellow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | past | a fellow in a trough along the same road not said here | the desperate efforts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product | ||||
| 5 | reach | to-infinitive | a fellow in a trough along the same road not said here | the drawn carriage | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | ||||
| 6 | draw | participle | dove compound | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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