Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 18
She came the third day from under the stone, crept up to him, and raised her head to kiss him.
Who acts: serpent · What happens: come, creep up, raise, kiss · To what, where: stone, shepherd, head
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crept | punct |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 crept | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crept | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 raised | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 raised | cc |
| 17 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raised | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kiss | mark |
| 21 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 raised | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kiss | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | serpent | the stone | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from stone=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | creep up | past | serpent not said here | shepherd | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | serpent's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | head | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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