Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 110
The men stood gazing at each other with long faces, when instantly their hair turned grey, and they all died soon of grief and vexation.
Who acts: men, hair · What happens: stand, gaze, turn, die
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 (men, hair), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 gazing | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 faces | case |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 faces | amod |
| 10 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gazing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 instantly | advmod |
| 13 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 17 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turned | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 died | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 died | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 died | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 died | advmod |
| 22 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 grief | advmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 grief | case |
| 25 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 died | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 vexation | cc |
| 27 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grief | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the men | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | the men not said here | with long faces; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | men's hair | grey, instantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | men = man | of grief and vexation; all property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |
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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