Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 73
The dogs barked as if for joy at the discovery, stopped their work, and sprang barking from one shepherd to the other.
Who acts: dogs · What happens: bark, stop, spring, work · To what, where: dogs, work, other
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 (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 dogs | det |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | barked | bark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dogs | acl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 joy | mark |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 barked | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 discovery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 discovery | det |
| 10 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joy | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dogs | punct |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 work | nmod:poss |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sprang | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sprang | cc |
| 17 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | conj |
| 18 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sprang | xcomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 shepherd | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 shepherd | nummod |
| 21 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 barking | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 barking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | participle | the dogs not said here | as joy at the discovery | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the dogs | dogs's work | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | the dogs not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bark | gerund | the dogs not said here | the other | from one shepherd | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient | |||
| 5 | work | dogs = dog | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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