Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 104
Listen, then: when the bells ring midnight, leave thy cottage, and climb the mountain in silence to the ruins of Burg Osterode.
Who acts: you, bells · What happens: listen, ring, leave, climb, ruin · To what, where: cottage, mountain, Burg
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bells), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Listen | advmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 ring | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 ring | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bells | det |
| 7 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ring | nsubj |
| 8 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Listen | parataxis |
| 9 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ring | conj |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 climb | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 climb | cc |
| 16 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ring | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climb | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 silence | case |
| 20 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climb | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ruins | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ruins | det |
| 23 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 climb | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Burg | case |
| 25 | Burg | Burg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ruins | nmod |
| 26 | Osterode | Osterode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Burg | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | then | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ring | present | the bells | midnight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | the bells not said here | thy cottage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | climb | infinitive | the bells not said here | the mountain | to the ruins of Burg result; in silence | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent in silence=Attribute to ruin=Result | |||
| 5 | ruin | Burg | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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