Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 57
Directly after this revolting scene the raging monster set off on a journey, without troubling himself to learn the result of his barbarous and fiendish cruelty.
What happens: revolt, rage, set off, trouble, learn, result · To what, where: raging monster, journey, monster, result, barbarous cruelty
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 5 scene | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 scene | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 scene | det |
| 4 | revolting | revolt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 scene | amod |
| 5 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monster | det |
| 7 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 monster | amod |
| 8 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scene | appos |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 monster | acl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 troubling | punct |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 troubling | mark |
| 16 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 set | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 troubling | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 learn | mark |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 troubling | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 result | det |
| 21 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learn | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 cruelty | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 cruelty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | barbarous | barbarous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cruelty | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fiendish | cc |
| 26 | fiendish | fiendish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 barbarous | conj |
| 27 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 result | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revolt | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | set off | participle | the raging monster not said here | a journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | trouble | gerund | monster | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | learn | to-infinitive | the result of monster's barbarous cruelty | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Topic | |||||
| 7 | result | monster's barbarous cruelty | nom result «phenomenon 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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