Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 92
Then one raven flapped his wings, nodded with his head, opened his bill and cried:
Who acts: one raven, Fishersche · What happens: flap, nod, open, cry, bill · To what, where: wings, bill
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 (one raven, Fishersche), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flapped | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 raven | nummod |
| 3 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flapped | nsubj |
| 4 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flapped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nodded | punct |
| 8 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flapped | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nodded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opened | punct |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flapped | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bill | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opened | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | one raven | Fishersche's wings | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 2 | nod | participle | one raven not said here | with Fishersche's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | past | Fishersche's bill | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bill | Fishersche | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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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