Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 15

One day, when he sat there as usual, a serpent came from under a stone and looked kindly at him.

Who acts: shepherd, serpent · What happens: sit, come, look · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, serpent), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sat	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sat	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 usual	case
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 serpent	det
12	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 stone	case
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 stone	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stone	det
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looked	cc
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
20	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	19 looked	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	shepherd	there	day	as usual	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	a serpent	a stone			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from stone=Initial_Location
3	look	past	a serpent not said here			at shepherd; kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 15