Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 96
As May entered it through the Gothic door, scarcely high enough to pass under without stooping, the first object on which her eyes fell was a crimson morocco sketch-book, closing like a pocket-book, nearly filled with sketches.
Who acts: May, eyes, crimson morocco sketch book · What happens: enter, pass, stoop, fall, be, close · To what, where: Fowler, Gothic door, first object, crimson morocco sketch book, pocket book
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 (May, eyes, crimson morocco sketch book), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 7 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 10 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pass | mark |
| 14 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 high | advcl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 pass | obl |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 stooping | mark |
| 17 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 book | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 object | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 object | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 object | amod |
| 21 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stooping | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fell | obl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 object | acl:relcl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 book | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 book | det |
| 29 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 book | amod |
| 30 | morocco | morocco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 book | compound |
| 31 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 book | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 sketch | punct |
| 33 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pass | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 closing | punct |
| 35 | closing | close | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 book | acl |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 book | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 book | det |
| 38 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 book | compound | ||
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 pocket | punct |
| 40 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 closing | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 filled | punct |
| 42 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 43 filled | advmod |
| 43 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 book | acl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 sketches | case |
| 45 | sketches | sketch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 filled | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | May | Fowler | the Gothic door | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | May not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stoop | gerund | the first object | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location object=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | guard's eyes | the first object | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on which=Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | a crimson morocco sketch book | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | close | gerund | a crimson morocco sketch book not said here | like a pocket book | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fill | participle | a pocket book not said here | with sketches; nearly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sketch=Instrument |
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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