Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 95
The fisherman almost devoured the singular picture with his eyes, and in his admiration could not turn away his gaze, till Graumännchen put an end to his puzzlement with the question, "Thy wish is granted; art thou satisfied?"
Who acts: fisherman, Graumännchen, Thy · What happens: devour, not turn away, put, grant, admire, gaze · To what, where: singular picture, gaze, admiration, end, wish · 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 (fisherman, Graumännchen, Thy), 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 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 devoured | nsubj |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 devoured | advmod |
| 4 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 6 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 picture | amod |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 devoured | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 picture | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turn | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 admiration | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 admiration | nmod:poss |
| 15 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obl |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 turn | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 turn | advmod |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 devoured | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADP | _ | 18 turn | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 21 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 put | mark |
| 24 | Graumännchen | Graumännchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 put | nsubj |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turn | conj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 puzzlement | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 puzzlement | nmod:poss |
| 30 | puzzlement | puzzlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 question | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 question | det |
| 33 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 granted | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 granted | punct |
| 36 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 wish | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 granted | aux:pass |
| 39 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 turn | parataxis |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 art | punct |
| 41 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 devoured | conj |
| 42 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 art | obj |
| 43 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 art | xcomp |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 devoured | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 devoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | past | the fisherman | the singular picture | with Fisherman's eyes; almost property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient | |||
| 2 | not turn away | could | the fisherman not said here | Fisherman's gaze | Fisherman's admiration | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | past | Graumännchen | a end | to Graumännchen's puzzlement; with the question | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 4 | grant in a quote | present · passive | Thy wish | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | admire | Fisherman | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | gaze | Fisherman | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | puzzle | Graumännchen | nom puzzlement «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | wish in a quote | Thy | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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