Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 16
At first he was seized with terror, but at last felt quite at home with her.
What happens: seize, feel · To what, where: shepherd, last
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 seized | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | aux:pass |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 terror | case |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | obl |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 felt | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 felt | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | shepherd | with terror | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | last | at home; with serpent | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
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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