Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 79
"We stayed a few days with the good minister, but in a state of feverish excitement, watching the descriptions of succeeding battles, and reading the lists of wounded, dead, and missing with a horrible fascination.
Who acts: We · What happens: stay, watch, succeed, read, miss, describe · To what, where: descriptions, state, lists, succeeding battles
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 minister | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minister | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minister | amod |
| 10 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 watching | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 watching | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 state | det |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watching | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 excitement | case |
| 17 | feverish | feverish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 excitement | amod |
| 18 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 state | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 state | punct |
| 20 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 descriptions | det |
| 22 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 watching | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 battles | case |
| 24 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 battles | amod |
| 25 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 descriptions | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 reading | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 reading | cc |
| 28 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lists | det |
| 30 | lists | list | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 reading | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wounded | case |
| 32 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lists | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dead | punct |
| 34 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wounded | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 missing | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 missing | cc |
| 37 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 reading | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 fascination | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 fascination | det |
| 40 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fascination | amod |
| 41 | fascination | fascination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 missing | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | past | We | day | with the good minister | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with minister=Location | |||
| 2 | watch in a quote | gerund | We not said here | the descriptions of succeeding battles | a state of feverish excitement | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme | |||
| 3 | succeed in a quote | gerund | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | read in a quote | gerund | We not said here | the lists of wounded | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Topic | ||||
| 5 | miss in a quote | gerund | We not said here | with a horrible fascination | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | describe in a quote | succeeding battles | nom description «communication 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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