Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 3
The raven nodded three times with his head in confirmation of his tale, and remained silent.
Who acts: raven · What happens: nod, remain, confirm, tell · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 raven | det |
| 2 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | nsubj |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nodded | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 confirmation | case |
| 10 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tale | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tale | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confirmation | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 remained | cc |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | conj |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remained | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the raven | time | with raven's head; in confirmation of raven's tale | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in confirmation=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | past | the raven not said here | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | confirm | raven's tale | nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | tell | raven | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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