Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 62
Still she did not hesitate, but began climbing down the smooth rocks, which offered only here and there a crevice to her aid.
Who acts: Escape, smooth rocks · What happens: not hesitate, begin, climb, offer · To what, where: smooth rocks
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: who acts (Escape, smooth rocks), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 hesitate | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hesitate | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hesitate | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hesitate | advmod |
| 5 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hesitate | advcl |
| 9 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 began | xcomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rocks | det |
| 12 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rocks | amod |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 climbing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 offered | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 offered | nsubj |
| 16 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 here | advmod |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 offered | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 there | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 climbing | expl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 crevice | det |
| 22 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 there | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 aid | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 aid | nmod:poss |
| 25 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crevice | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hesitate | past · do-support | Escape | still | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Escape not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | Escape not said here | the smooth rocks; there | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | offer | past | the smooth rocks | here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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