Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 85

So saying, she opened the windows of the hut, one towards the north, the other to the south, and murmured a few unintelligible words, and uttered one piercing whistle.

Who acts: grandmother · What happens: say, open, murmur, utter · To what, where: windows, few unintelligible words, one piercing whistle · 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 (grandmother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 opened	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 windows	det
7	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 windows	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 opened	obl
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	15 north	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 north	det
15	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 other	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 opened	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 south	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 south	det
21	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 other	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 murmured	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 murmured	cc
24	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 words	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 words	amod
27	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 words	amod
28	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 murmured	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 uttered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 uttered	cc
31	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 murmured	conj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 whistle	nummod
33	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 whistle	compound
34	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 uttered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	grandmother not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	open	past	grandmother	the windows of the hut	one towards the north obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
3	murmur speech: other	past	grandmother not said here	a few unintelligible words		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	utter speech: other	past	grandmother not said here	one piercing whistle		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whistle=Topic

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 85