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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 96

"It happened once that he met there a noble white stag, and being a passionate lover of the chase, he threw his spear, killing the animal on the spot.

Who acts: It, son · What happens: happen, meet, be, throw, kill · To what, where: noble white stag, passionate lover, spear, animal, spot

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 (It, son), 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

punctnsubjmarkmarknsubjadvcladvmoddetamodamodobjpunctcccopdetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjpunctadvcldetobjcasedetoblpunctroot"PUNCTItPRONhappenedVERBonceSCONJthatSCONJhePRONmetVERBthereADVaDETnobleADJwhiteADJstagNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbeingAUXaDETpassionateADJloverNOUNofADPtheDETchaseNOUN,PUNCThePRONthrewVERBhisPRONspearNOUN,PUNCTkillingVERBtheDETanimalNOUNonADPtheDETspotNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 happenedpunct
2ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 happenednsubj
3happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4onceonceSCONJ_7 metmark
5thatthatSCONJ_7 metmark
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 metnsubj
7metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedadvcl
8therethereADVPronType=Dem7 metadvmod
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 stagdet
10noblenobleADJDegree=Pos12 stagamod
11whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos12 stagamod
12stagstagNOUNNumber=Sing7 metobj
13,,PUNCT_18 loverpunct
14andandCCONJ_18 lovercc
15beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 lovercop
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 loverdet
17passionatepassionateADJDegree=Pos18 loveramod
18loverloverNOUNNumber=Sing7 metobl
19ofofADP_21 chasecase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 chasedet
21chasechaseNOUNNumber=Sing18 lovernmod
22,,PUNCT_24 threwpunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 threwnsubj
24threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedparataxis
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 spearnmod:poss
26spearspearNOUNNumber=Sing24 threwobj
27,,PUNCT_28 killingpunct
28killingkillVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 threwadvcl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 animaldet
30animalanimalNOUNNumber=Sing28 killingobj
31ononADP_33 spotcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 spotdet
33spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing28 killingobl
34..PUNCT_3 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happen in a quotepastItvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2meet in a quotepastsona noble white stagtherevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Co-Agent
3is a in a quotegerunda passionate loverof the chasetree rules
4throw in a quotepastsonson's spearvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
5kill in a quotegerundson not said herethe animalthe spotvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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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