Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 63
The farmer stood with crossed arms for at least ten minutes, gazing at the immense treasures, thinking what was to be done to secure them without falling into the power of the savage guard--the dog.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: stand, cross, gaze, think, do, secure · To what, where: treasures, power · 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 (farmer), 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 | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 arms | amod |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 minutes | case |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 least | case |
| 9 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 ten | nmod |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 minutes | nummod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazing | punct |
| 13 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 treasures | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 treasures | det |
| 16 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 treasures | amod |
| 17 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gazing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thinking | punct |
| 19 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 gazing | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 done | obj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thinking | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 secure | mark |
| 26 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 done | xcomp |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 secure | obj |
| 28 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 falling | mark |
| 29 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 secure | advcl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 power | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 power | det |
| 32 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 falling | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 guard | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 guard | det |
| 35 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 guard | amod |
| 36 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 power | nmod |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 dog | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 dog | det |
| 39 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 guard | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the farmer | minute | with crossed arms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cross | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | the farmer not said here | at the immense treasures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | the farmer not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | past · passive | what obj | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | secure | to-infinitive | treasures = treasure | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Theme | |||||
| 7 | fall | gerund | into the power of the savage guard and the dog result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result |
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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