Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 45
The nag, feeling no longer the hand guiding the reins, turned aside to seek for himself a fresh breakfast, stood still, and began to graze.
Who acts: nag, hand · What happens: feel, guide, turn, seek, stand, begin · To what, where: hand, reins, fresh breakfast
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 (nag, hand), 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 nag | det |
| 2 | nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 nag | acl |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 feeling | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | obj |
| 9 | guiding | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hand | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reins | det |
| 11 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 guiding | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 reins | acl |
| 14 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 seek | mark |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 turned | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 seek | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 breakfast | det |
| 20 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 breakfast | amod |
| 21 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seek | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nag | punct |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 stood | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 began | cc |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stood | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 graze | mark |
| 29 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 began | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | the nag not said here | the hand | long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | guide | gerund | the hand not said here | the reins | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | participle | the reins not said here | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | a fresh breakfast | for nag | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent breakfast=Location for himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | the nag | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | the nag not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | graze | to-infinitive | the nag not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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