Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 58
Terrified at the sight, he lost his courage, forgot to cross himself, and, seizing the hand of the maiden turned to flee.
Who acts: lover, seizing · What happens: lose, forget, not cross, seize, turn, flee · To what, where: courage, lover, hand
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 (lover, seizing), 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 | Terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Terrified | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Terrified | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 courage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgot | punct |
| 11 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cross | mark |
| 13 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forgot | xcomp |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 cross | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 turned | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seizing | punct |
| 18 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 turned | csubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seizing | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 maiden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hand | nmod |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Terrified | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 flee | mark |
| 26 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 turned | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | lover | lover's courage | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | lover not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not cross | to-infinitive | lover not said here | lover | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | seize | gerund | the hand of the maiden | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 5 | turn | past | seizing | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | flee | to-infinitive | seizing not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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