Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 71
And sometimes still, on St. John's Day, the White Stag is seen on the Hagedorn, gazing with fixed eyes into the peaceful vale.
What happens: see, gaze, fix · To what, where: White Stag, Hagedorn
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 Day | advmod |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 Day | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Day | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Day | case |
| 6 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 John | nmod:desc |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Day | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 John | case |
| 9 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Day | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Stag | det |
| 12 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Stag | amod |
| 13 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Hagedorn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Hagedorn | det |
| 18 | Hagedorn | Hagedorn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gazing | punct |
| 20 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 seen | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 eyes | amod |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gazing | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 vale | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 vale | det |
| 26 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 vale | amod |
| 27 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gazing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | the White Stag | the Hagedorn | on John St.'s Day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | with fixed eyes; into the peaceful vale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vale=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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