Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 49
The farmer had never heard of such a wild and savage scene so near his place of residence, and fancied he had been transplanted through enchantment to some distant land.
What happens: not hear, fancy, transplant · To what, where: farmer, enchantment
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: 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 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 scene | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 scene | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 scene | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scene | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 savage | cc |
| 11 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wild | conj |
| 12 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 place | advmod |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scene | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 residence | case |
| 18 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fancied | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fancied | cc |
| 21 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 transplanted | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 transplanted | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 transplanted | aux:pass |
| 25 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fancied | ccomp |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 enchantment | case |
| 27 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 transplanted | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 land | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 land | det |
| 30 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 land | amod |
| 31 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 transplanted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · perfect · passive | the farmer | of such wild scene | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fancy | past | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | transplant | past · perfect · passive | farmer | enchantment | to some distant land | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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