Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 144
They ride on, and Volkmar asks the trembling Reinhilde, "Hast thou heard?
Who acts: searchers, Volkmar, thou · What happens: ride on, ask, tremble, have, hear · To what, where: trembling Reinhilde, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (searchers, Volkmar, thou), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ride | nsubj |
| 2 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 ride | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asks | cc |
| 6 | Volkmar | Volkmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | nsubj |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ride | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Reinhilde | det |
| 9 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Reinhilde | amod |
| 10 | Reinhilde | Reinhilde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hast | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hast | punct |
| 13 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asks | conj |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 Hast | obj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Hast | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride on | present | searchers = searcher | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Volkmar | the trembling Reinhilde | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reinhilde=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | Volkmar not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | participle | thou not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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