Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 63
The son called with all his might his father's name, who, terrified lest something dreadful had happened, hastened after the voice.
Who acts: son, wolf · What happens: call, happen, hasten, name · To what, where: son · 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 (son, wolf), 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 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 son | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 name | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 name | aux |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 terrified | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 terrified | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 terrified | punct |
| 15 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | acl:relcl |
| 16 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 17 something | case |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 terrified | obl |
| 18 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hastened | punct |
| 22 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 happened | conj |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hastened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the son not said here | with wolf's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | the son | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the son not said here | after the voice | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | wolf | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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