Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 58
They had already penetrated the thick underbrush, and a stripe in the dewy grass showed the way they had taken.
Who acts: borders, stripe · What happens: penetrate, show, take · To what, where: thick underbrush, way
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 (borders, stripe), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 penetrated | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 penetrated | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 penetrated | advmod |
| 4 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 underbrush | det |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 underbrush | amod |
| 7 | underbrush | underbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 penetrated | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 showed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 showed | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stripe | det |
| 11 | stripe | stripe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 grass | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grass | det |
| 14 | dewy | dewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stripe | nmod |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 penetrated | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 showed | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taken | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 way | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 penetrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | penetrate | past · perfect | borders = border | the thick underbrush | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent underbrush=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show | past | a stripe in the dewy grass | the way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | borders = border | the way not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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