Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 22
For, stealing forward and looking over the broken walls, he saw twelve knights in antique costume, who amused themselves with the game of skittles.
Who acts: forest, antique costume · What happens: steal, look, break, see, amuse · To what, where: twelve knights, antique costume, walls
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, antique costume), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 stealing | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stealing | punct |
| 3 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | advcl |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 stealing | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looking | cc |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stealing | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 walls | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 walls | amod |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stealing | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 knights | nummod |
| 15 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 costume | case |
| 17 | antique | antique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 costume | amod |
| 18 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 amused | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 amused | nsubj |
| 21 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 costume | acl:relcl |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 amused | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 game | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 game | det |
| 25 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 amused | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 skittles | case |
| 27 | skittles | skittle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 game | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | gerund | forest not said here | forward property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | forest not said here | over the broken walls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over wall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | see | past | forest | twelve knights | antique costume | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | amuse | past | antique costume | walls = wall | with the game of skittles | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=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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