Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 90
She is gazing after him from the tower, waiting for his return by the broken drawbridge, and wanders ever in search of him.
Who acts: guard, Crusader · What happens: gaze, wait, break, wander, return, search · To what, where: search, Crusader
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 (guard, Crusader), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazing | aux |
| 3 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazing | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gazing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gazing | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 return | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 return | nmod:poss |
| 13 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 drawbridge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 drawbridge | det |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 drawbridge | amod |
| 17 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wanders | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wanders | cc |
| 20 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazing | parataxis |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 wanders | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 search | case |
| 23 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanders | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 search | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | present · progressive | guard | after Crusader | from the tower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tower=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | guard not said here | for Crusader's return; by the broken drawbridge | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by drawbridge=Location | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | wander | present | search of Crusader | ever | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | return | Crusader | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | search | Crusader | nom search «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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