Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 80

Thus he frequently sat hours at a time by his nets, lost in dreams, ever glancing again across to the wild ruins, and wishing the long-vanished centuries back again.

Who acts: tradition · What happens: sit, lose, glance, wish · To what, where: nets, dreams

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 (tradition), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 nets	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nets	nmod:poss
11	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 nets	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 dreams	case
15	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lost	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 glancing	punct
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 glancing	advmod
18	glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 glancing	advmod
20	across	across	ADV	_	18 glancing	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 ruins	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ruins	det
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ruins	amod
24	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 glancing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wishing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wishing	cc
27	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 glancing	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 centuries	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 vanished	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 long	punct
31	vanished	vanished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 centuries	amod
32	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wishing	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	34 again	advmod
34	again	again	ADV	_	27 wishing	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	tradition			hour; time	by tradition's nets; frequently, thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by net=Location
2	lose	participle		tradition's nets not said here	dreams			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in dream=Eventuality
3	glance	gerund	tradition not said here			ever; again	to the wild ruins; across property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ruin=Theme
4	wish	gerund	tradition not said here			again; century		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 80