Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 75
The countryman hastened to fulfil the commission, showing the signet ring.
What happens: hasten, fulfil, show · To what, where: countryman, commission, signet ring
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 countryman | det |
| 2 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 countryman | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fulfil | mark |
| 5 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 commission | det |
| 7 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fulfil | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showing | punct |
| 9 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fulfil | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 11 | signet | signet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ring | compound |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 countryman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the countryman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fulfil | to-infinitive | the commission | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show | gerund | the signet ring | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient |
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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