Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 32
All listened incredulously to his tale of the knights and old dress, and feared he was not quite right in his head.
Who acts: forest, knights · What happens: listen, fear, not be, tell · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
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, knights), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 2 listened | advmod |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | incredulously | incredulously | ADV | _ | 2 listened | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tale | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tale | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 knights | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knights | det |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tale | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dress | cc |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dress | amod |
| 12 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knights | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 feared | cc |
| 15 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 right | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 right | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 right | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 right | advmod |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feared | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 right | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | to forest's tale of the knights and old dress; all, incredulously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fear | past | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | not is | past | forest | forest's head | right property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell | the knights and old dress | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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