Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 50
The stag sprang impetuously forward to meet him, and hardly had he eaten the plants, when the stag took the form of a stately youth, in knightly gold-embroidered doublet, streaming plume in his barret, and baldrick worked in gold and antlers.
Who acts: stag, baldrick · What happens: spring, meet, have, eat, take, embroider · To what, where: stag, plants, form, knightly embroidered doublet, plume, barret
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 (stag, baldrick), 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 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | impetuously | impetuously | ADV | _ | 5 forward | advmod |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sprang | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | parataxis |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eaten | nsubj |
| 14 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plants | det |
| 16 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eaten | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 took | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stag | det |
| 20 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 form | det |
| 23 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 youth | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 youth | det |
| 26 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 youth | amod |
| 27 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 form | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 doublet | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 doublet | case |
| 30 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 doublet | amod |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 embroidered | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 gold | punct |
| 33 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 doublet | amod |
| 34 | doublet | doublet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 streaming | punct |
| 36 | streaming | stream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 took | advcl |
| 37 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 streaming | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 barret | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 barret | nmod:poss |
| 40 | barret | barret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 streaming | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 worked | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 worked | cc |
| 43 | baldrick | baldrick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 worked | nsubj |
| 44 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 gold | case |
| 46 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 worked | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 antlers | cc |
| 48 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 gold | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the stag | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the stag not said here | stag | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | hardly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat | participle | stag | the plants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the stag | the form of a stately youth | knightly embroidered doublet | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent form=Value in doublet=Location | |||
| 6 | embroider | participle | gold compound | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | stream | gerund | the stag not said here | plume | stag's barret | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plume=Theme | |||
| 8 | work | past | baldrick | in gold and antlers | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gold=Theme | ||||
| 9 | form | a stately youth | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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