Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 56
Up-leaped the red gazer and fled, but the white snow was sprinkled with scarlet, And she fell in the oak thicket dead.
Who acts: swift · What happens: leap, flee, sprinkle, fall · To what, where: red gazer, white snow, oak thicket
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 (swift), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 3 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Up | punct |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fled | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gazer | det |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gazer | amod |
| 6 | gazer | gazer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fled | cc |
| 8 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprinkled | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 sprinkled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snow | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snow | amod |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 15 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fled | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 scarlet | case |
| 17 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprinkled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fled | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 thicket | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thicket | det |
| 24 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thicket | compound |
| 25 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 thicket | amod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the red gazer | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gazer=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | flee | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sprinkle | past · passive | the white snow | with scarlet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with scarlet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | swift | the oak thicket | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in thicket=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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