Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 92
Lindor was not less unhappy; in vain he sought to approach his _Braut_, wandered round and round the convent walls, climbed the trees, and watched to catch a glimpse of her, all in vain.
Who acts: Lindor · What happens: not be, seek, approach, wander, round, climb · To what, where: vain, Braut, convent walls, trees, glimpse, wall
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: who acts (Lindor), 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 | Lindor | Lindor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 unhappy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 4 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sought | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 vain | case |
| 8 | vain | vain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sought | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sought | nsubj |
| 10 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 approach | mark |
| 12 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sought | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Braut | nmod:poss |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Braut | punct |
| 15 | Braut | Braut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 approach | obj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 approach | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sought | conj |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 18 wandered | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 round | cc |
| 21 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wandered | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 walls | det |
| 23 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walls | compound |
| 24 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 round | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 climbed | punct |
| 26 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sought | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trees | det |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 climbed | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 watched | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 watched | cc |
| 31 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sought | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 catch | mark |
| 33 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 watched | xcomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 glimpse | det |
| 35 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 catch | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 glimpse | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 all | punct |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 unhappy | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 vain | case |
| 41 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 all | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Lindor | less, unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | Lindor | vain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lindor not said here | Lindor's Braut | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braut=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wander | past | Lindor not said here | round property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | round | infinitive | Lindor not said here | the convent walls | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wall=Patient | ||||
| 6 | climb | past | Lindor not said here | the trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 7 | watch | past | Lindor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | catch | to-infinitive | Lindor not said here | a glimpse of wall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 9 | glimpse | wall | nom glimpse «act 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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