Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 77
Also the romantic situation of his cottage satisfied him no longer, and when he looked across the Bode to the mighty rock, and the ruins on its top, all sorts of foolish and ambitious thoughts crowded his mind.
Who acts: romantic situation, Fisherman, ruins · What happens: satisfy, look, crowd, sort, mind · To what, where: Fisherman, mind, foolish thoughts
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 (romantic situation, Fisherman, ruins), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 8 satisfied | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 situation | det |
| 3 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 situation | amod |
| 4 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 satisfied | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cottage | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 situation | nmod |
| 8 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 satisfied | obj |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 satisfied | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 looked | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 satisfied | conj |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 Bode | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bode | det |
| 19 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rock | det |
| 22 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rock | amod |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 crowded | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 crowded | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ruins | det |
| 27 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 crowded | nsubj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 top | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 top | nmod:poss |
| 30 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ruins | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sorts | punct |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 sorts | det |
| 33 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 crowded | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 thoughts | case |
| 35 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 thoughts | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ambitious | cc |
| 37 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 foolish | conj |
| 38 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sorts | nmod |
| 39 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 satisfied | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 mind | nmod:poss |
| 41 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 crowded | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | past | the romantic situation of situation's cottage | Fisherman | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | look | past | Fisherman | to the mighty rock; across the Bode | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across bode=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crowd | past | the ruins on cottage's top | Fisherman's mind | all sorts of foolish thoughts nsubj | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Destination | |||
| 4 | sort | foolish thoughts | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mind | Fisherman | nom mind «cognition 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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