Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 60
The father remained standing, keeping his eyes on the lambs; but it was not long before he heard the missing dogs bark, and fancied he heard also the voice of his son.
Who acts: father, stripe, wolf, missing dogs · What happens: remain, stand, keep, not be, hear, bark · To what, where: eyes, voice · 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 (father, stripe, wolf, missing dogs), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keeping | punct |
| 6 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 standing | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keeping | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 lambs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lambs | det |
| 11 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keeping | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 long | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 long | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 long | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 heard | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 heard | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dogs | det |
| 22 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dogs | amod |
| 23 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bark | nsubj |
| 24 | bark | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fancied | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fancied | cc |
| 27 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | conj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 heard | nsubj |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fancied | ccomp |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 32 voice | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 voice | det |
| 32 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 heard | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 son | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 voice | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the father not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | the father not said here | wolf's eyes | on the lambs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on lamb=Location | |||
| 4 | not is | past | stripe | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | wolf | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | bark | present | the missing dogs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fancy | past | wolf not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | hear | past | wolf | the voice of wolf's son | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
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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