Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 70
And again he descended emboldened into the cave, seized the whip, and turned to go, when his eye fell again upon the tempting gold; he could not resist the allurement, and plunged both hands, twice into the copper.
Who acts: eye, Patience · What happens: embolden, seize, turn, go, fall, not resist · To what, where: Patience, cave, whip, tempting gold, allurement, hands
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 (eye, Patience), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 emboldened | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 emboldened | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 emboldened | nsubj |
| 4 | descended | descend | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 emboldened | aux:pass |
| 5 | emboldened | embolden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 emboldened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 emboldened | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 whip | det |
| 12 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 turned | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 fell | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eye | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | advcl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gold | det |
| 26 | tempting | tempting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gold | compound |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 resist | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 resist | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 resist | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 resist | advmod |
| 32 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 emboldened | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 allurement | det |
| 34 | allurement | allurement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 resist | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 plunged | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 plunged | cc |
| 37 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 resist | conj |
| 38 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 hands | det |
| 39 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 plunged | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 copper | punct |
| 41 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 44 copper | advmod |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 copper | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 copper | det |
| 44 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 plunged | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 emboldened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embolden | past · passive | Patience | the cave | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | seize | past | the whip | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | fall | past | Patience's eye | the tempting gold | again | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon gold=Location | |||
| 6 | not resist | could | Patience | the allurement | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | plunge | past | Patience not said here | both hands | the copper | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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