Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 29
At last one of the boys began climbing up the tower walls to pluck it, when he heard a soft voice murmur so clearly that all heard it, "Do not pluck me."
Who acts: boys, John · What happens: begin, climb up, pluck, hear, not pluck · To what, where: tower walls, cry, soft voice murmur, murmur, flower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, John), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 boys | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boys | det |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 began | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 climbing | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 walls | det |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walls | compound |
| 12 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 climbing | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pluck | mark |
| 14 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 climbing | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pluck | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 heard | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 murmur | det |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 murmur | amod |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 murmur | compound |
| 23 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 clearly | advmod |
| 25 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 19 heard | advmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 heard | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 heard | advmod |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 heard | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pluck | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 pluck | punct |
| 32 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 pluck | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 pluck | advmod |
| 34 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 heard | conj |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 pluck | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the boys | at last one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | climb up | gerund | the boys not said here | the tower walls | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pluck | to-infinitive | the boys not said here | cry | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | John | a soft voice murmur | clearly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmur=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | hear | past | John not said here | murmur | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not pluck in a quote | infinitive · do-support | John not said here | the flower = flower | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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