Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 77
Not till now were the dogs satisfied, but as the second chest was opened they hurried back to the flock, and displayed an unwonted zeal to fulfil their duty.
Who acts: dogs · What happens: not be, open, hurry back, display, fulfil · To what, where: second chest, flock, unwonted zeal, duty
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 2 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 satisfied | mark |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dogs | det |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 satisfied | nsubj |
| 7 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurried | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurried | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 opened | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chest | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 chest | amod |
| 13 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 opened | aux:pass |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hurried | advcl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hurried | nsubj |
| 17 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | parataxis |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 hurried | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 flock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flock | det |
| 21 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hurried | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 displayed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 displayed | cc |
| 24 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hurried | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 zeal | det |
| 26 | unwonted | unwonted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 zeal | amod |
| 27 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 displayed | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 fulfil | mark |
| 29 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 displayed | advcl |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 duty | nmod:poss |
| 31 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fulfil | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the dogs | now | satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the second chest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurry back | past | dogs = dog | the flock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to flock=Destination | ||||
| 4 | display | past | dogs = dog not said here | a unwonted zeal | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zeal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fulfil | to-infinitive | dogs = dog not said here | dogs's duty | tree rules |
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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