Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 31
This excited him still more, and stretching out his hand to pick the flower, a hideous serpent raised its head hissing from under the leaves, when the boy fell back in deadly terror among thorns and fallen stones; and was carried home with broken limbs.
Who acts: hideous serpent, boy · What happens: stretch out, pick, raise, hiss, fall back, fall · To what, where: hand, flower, head, leaves, deadly terror
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 (hideous serpent, boy), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 excited | nsubj |
| 2 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 excited | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 excited | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 raised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 raised | cc |
| 8 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 raised | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 stretching | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretching | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pick | mark |
| 13 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stretching | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flower | det |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pick | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretching | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 serpent | det |
| 18 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 serpent | amod |
| 19 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raised | nsubj |
| 20 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 excited | parataxis |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raised | obj |
| 23 | hissing | hiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 raised | advcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 leaves | case |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 leaves | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 leaves | det |
| 27 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hissing | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fell | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 fell | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 boy | det |
| 31 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 raised | conj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 fell | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 terror | case |
| 35 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 terror | amod |
| 36 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | obl |
| 37 | among | among | ADP | _ | 38 thorns | case |
| 38 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 terror | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stones | cc |
| 40 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 stones | amod |
| 41 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 thorns | conj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 carried | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 carried | cc |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 carried | aux:pass |
| 45 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 excited | advcl |
| 46 | home | home | ADV | _ | 45 carried | advmod |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 limbs | case |
| 48 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 limbs | amod |
| 49 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 carried | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | gerund | a hideous serpent not said here | John's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pick | to-infinitive | a hideous serpent not said here | the flower | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | a hideous serpent | serpent's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hiss | gerund | a hideous serpent not said here | the leaves | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fall back | past | the boy | deadly terror among thorns and fallen stones | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in terror=Location | ||||
| 6 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | carry | past · passive | with broken limbs; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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