Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 84
The does and their sleek, dappled fawns prick their ears and peer out from the thickets, And the bison-calves play on the lawns, and gambol like colts in the clover.
Who acts: sleek dappled fawns, bison calves · What happens: do, prick, peer out, play · To what, where: ears, gambol, lawns
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleek dappled fawns, bison calves), 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 does | det |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prick | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fawns | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sleek | sleek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fawns | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleek | punct |
| 7 | dappled | dappled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fawns | amod |
| 8 | fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prick | nsubj |
| 9 | prick | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 does | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ears | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prick | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 peer | cc |
| 13 | peer | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 prick | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 peer | compound:prt |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 thickets | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thickets | det |
| 17 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 peer | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 play | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 play | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 calves | det |
| 21 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 calves | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 bison | punct |
| 23 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 play | nsubj |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 does | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 lawns | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lawns | det |
| 27 | lawns | lawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 play | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gambol | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gambol | cc |
| 30 | gambol | gambol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | obl |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 colts | case |
| 32 | colts | colt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gambol | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 clover | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 clover | det |
| 35 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 colts | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | prick | present | goose's sleek dappled fawns | goose's ears | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | peer out | present | goose's sleek dappled fawns not said here | from the thickets | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from thicket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | play | present | the bison calves | gambol like colts in the clover | the lawns | vn performance-26.7-1 «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 of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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