Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 55
Astonished at the unwonted disobedience, and anxious lest they might lose the dogs, the shepherds decided to follow them to the borders of the wood.
Who acts: sons, shepherds · What happens: astonish, lose, decide, follow · To what, where: unwonted disobedience, dogs, sons, borders
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 (sons, shepherds), 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 | Astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 disobedience | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 disobedience | det |
| 4 | unwonted | unwonted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 disobedience | amod |
| 5 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Astonished | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 anxious | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 anxious | cc |
| 8 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Astonished | parataxis |
| 9 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 12 lose | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lose | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lose | aux |
| 12 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 anxious | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dogs | det |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lose | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decided | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shepherds | det |
| 17 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 decided | nsubj |
| 18 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anxious | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decided | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 borders | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 borders | det |
| 24 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 follow | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wood | det |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 borders | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | participle | the unwonted disobedience | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lose | might | sons = son | the dogs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | the shepherds | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the shepherds not said here | sons = son | the borders of the wood | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to border=Trajectory |
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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