Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 50
Anxiously he gazed around him, convinced himself he was not dreaming, for the sun was shining upon the savage rocks, and his nag grazed unconcerned.
Who acts: farmer, sun · What happens: gaze, convince, not dream, shine, unconcern · To what, where: farmer, savage rocks, nag
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 (farmer, sun), 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 | Anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 3 gazed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 convinced | punct |
| 7 | convinced | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazed | conj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 convinced | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dreaming | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dreaming | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dreaming | advmod |
| 12 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 convinced | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shining | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 shining | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shining | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shining | aux |
| 18 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 dreaming | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 rocks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rocks | det |
| 21 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rocks | compound |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shining | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 unconcerned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 unconcerned | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nag | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 unconcerned | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 unconcerned | aux:pass |
| 28 | unconcerned | unconcern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gazed | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | farmer | around rode = road; anxiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | convince | past | farmer not said here | farmer | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent himself=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | not dream | past · progressive | farmer | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | the savage rocks | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Location | ||||
| 5 | unconcern | past · passive | farmer's nag | tree rules |
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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