Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 91
The forester's son had slept but a short time, as it seemed to him, when he was waked up suddenly.
Who acts: it · What happens: sleep, seem, wake up · To what, where: son
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 (it), 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 forester | det |
| 2 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 forester | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slept | aux |
| 6 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 time | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slept | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waked | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 waked | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 waked | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 waked | aux:pass |
| 21 | waked | wake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seemed | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 waked | compound:prt |
| 23 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 21 waked | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · perfect · passive | the forester's son | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | son | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wake up | past · passive | son | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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