Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 45
In a short time a troop of peasants, men and women, appeared, half-bent from the weight of baskets on their backs, and tubs of butter and cheese under the arm.
What happens: appear, bend · To what, where: tubs, weight
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 troop | det |
| 6 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 peasants | case |
| 8 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 troop | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 men | punct |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peasants | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 women | cc |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peasants | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bent | punct |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 bent | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 half | punct |
| 18 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 appeared | advcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 weight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 weight | det |
| 21 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bent | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 baskets | case |
| 23 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 weight | nmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 backs | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 backs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 baskets | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tubs | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tubs | cc |
| 29 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appeared | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 butter | case |
| 31 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tubs | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cheese | cc |
| 33 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 butter | conj |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 36 arm | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 arm | det |
| 36 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cheese | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | tubs of butter and cheese under the arm | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bend | participle | the weight of baskets on baskets's backs | half compound | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from weight=Location |
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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