Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 8
The serpent suddenly vanished, with such a shriek of anguish that the shepherd was ever afterward perfectly deaf.
Who acts: serpent, shriek · What happens: vanish, be, shriek · To what, where: shriek, anguish
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, shriek), 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 serpent | det |
| 2 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 vanished | advmod |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shriek | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 shriek | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 shriek | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shriek | det |
| 9 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanished | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 anguish | case |
| 11 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shriek | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 deaf | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shepherd | det |
| 14 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deaf | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 deaf | cop |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 afterward | advmod |
| 17 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 19 deaf | advmod |
| 18 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 19 deaf | advmod |
| 19 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shriek | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the serpent | such shriek of anguish | suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | such shriek of anguish | ever | the shepherd nsubj; afterward, deaf, perfectly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | shriek | anguish | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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