Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 40
Many who ridiculed the idea of danger, paying no heed to friendly warnings, forced their way through thorns and thickets to behold the mystery, and returned no more.
Who acts: Many, friendly warnings, way · What happens: ridicule, pay, force, behold, return · To what, where: idea, heed, way, thorns, mystery, more
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 (Many, friendly warnings, way), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ridiculed | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 ridiculed | nsubj |
| 3 | ridiculed | ridicule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ridiculed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 danger | case |
| 7 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 idea | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 paying | punct |
| 9 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ridiculed | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 heed | det |
| 11 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paying | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 warnings | case |
| 13 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 warnings | amod |
| 14 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paying | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forced | punct |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 warnings | acl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forced | obj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 thorns | case |
| 20 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forced | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thickets | cc |
| 22 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thorns | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 behold | mark |
| 24 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forced | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mystery | det |
| 26 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 behold | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 returned | cc |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ridiculed | conj |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 more | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 returned | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ridiculed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ridicule | past | Many | the idea of danger | who nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | |||
| 2 | pay | gerund | Many not said here | no heed | to friendly warnings | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 3 | force | participle | friendly warnings not said here | warnings's way | thorns and thickets | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | behold | to-infinitive | warnings's way not said here | the mystery | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mystery=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | return | past | Many not said here | more | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
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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