Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 26

Over meadow and ice-covered mere, through the thickets of red oak and hazel, She followed the tracks of the deer, but like phantoms they fled from her vision.

Who acts: Ta, tracks · What happens: cover, follow, flee · To what, where: tracks, meadow, vision

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ta, tracks), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	2 meadow	case
2	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 followed	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mere	cc
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ice	punct
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mere	amod
7	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meadow	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thickets	punct
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 thickets	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thickets	det
11	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meadow	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 oak	case
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 oak	amod
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thickets	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hazel	cc
16	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 oak	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 meadow	punct
18	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 followed	nsubj
19	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tracks	det
21	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 followed	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 deer	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 deer	det
24	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tracks	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fled	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 fled	cc
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 phantoms	case
28	phantoms	phantom	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fled	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fled	nsubj
30	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 followed	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 vision	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 vision	nmod:poss
33	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	participle				ice compound	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	follow	past	Ta	the tracks of the deer	meadow and covered mere and the thickets of red oak and hazel		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme over meadow=Trajectory
3	flee	past	tracks = track		Ta's vision	like phantoms	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from vision=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 26