Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 73
Weidemann was surprised himself at this confidence, which grew every day; and it seemed to him, when the stag gazed at him with its clear eyes so winningly, as if it would speak, and only language failed.
Who acts: Weidemann, confidence, it, stag, language · What happens: be, grow, seem, gaze, speak, fail · To what, where: confidence, Weidemann · 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 (Weidemann, confidence, it, stag), 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 | Weidemann | Weidemann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 confidence | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 confidence | det |
| 7 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 confidence | acl:relcl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 seemed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seemed | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seemed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gazed | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 gazed | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stag | det |
| 22 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gazed | nsubj |
| 23 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 speak | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gazed | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gazed | obl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 winningly | advmod |
| 31 | winningly | winningly | ADV | _ | 23 gazed | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 speak | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 speak | mark |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 speak | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 speak | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 speak | aux |
| 37 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 failed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 failed | cc |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 language | advmod |
| 41 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 failed | nsubj |
| 42 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seemed | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Weidemann | this confidence | surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | this confidence | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | Weidemann | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | gaze | past | the stag | at Weidemann; with Stag's clear eyes; winningly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | would | Stag | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | fail | past | language | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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