Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 83

Graumännchen seemed in great embarrassment; this awakened the pity of the fisherman, and he called across that he would come and carry him over the water.

Who acts: Graumännchen, this · What happens: seem, awaken, call, come, carry, pity · To what, where: pity, Graumännchen, water, fisherman · 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 (Graumännchen, this), 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	Graumännchen	Graumännchen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 embarrassment	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 embarrassment	amod
5	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 awakened	punct
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 awakened	nsubj
8	awakened	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pity	det
10	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 awakened	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 fisherman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fisherman	det
13	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pity	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 awakened	conj
18	across	across	ADP	_	22 come	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 called	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 carry	cc
24	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carry	obj
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carry	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Graumännchen			in great embarrassment	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in embarrassment=Attribute
2	awaken	past	this	the pity of the fisherman			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pity=Theme
3	call	past	Graumännchen				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	would	Graumännchen				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	infinitive	Graumännchen not said here	Graumännchen	the water		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	pity			the fisherman			nom pity «feeling 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 83