Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 123
At midnight, when the moonlight rests on the rustling oaks, or the winter snow glitters and winds howl, there rises a white form from the ruins of this robber Schloss, a wreath of flowers around the head, and in the girdle a bunch of keys.
Who acts: moonlight, snow glitters · What happens: rest, howl, rise, ruin · To what, where: rustling oaks, white form, ruins, robber Schloss
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 (moonlight, snow glitters), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rests | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 midnight | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 rests | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moonlight | det |
| 6 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rests | nsubj |
| 7 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 oaks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oaks | det |
| 10 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 oaks | compound |
| 11 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rests | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 howl | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 howl | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glitters | det |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snow | compound |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glitters | compound |
| 17 | glitters | glitter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 howl | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 winds | cc |
| 19 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 glitters | conj |
| 20 | howl | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rests | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rises | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 rises | expl |
| 23 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 howl | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 form | det |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 form | amod |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rises | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 ruins | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ruins | det |
| 29 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rises | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Schloss | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 Schloss | det |
| 32 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Schloss | compound |
| 33 | Schloss | schloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ruins | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wreath | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 wreath | det |
| 36 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Schloss | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 flowers | case |
| 38 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 wreath | nmod |
| 39 | around | around | ADP | _ | 41 head | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 head | det |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flowers | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 girdle | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 girdle | cc |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 girdle | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 girdle | det |
| 46 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rests | obl |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 bunch | det |
| 48 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 girdle | appos |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 keys | case |
| 50 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 bunch | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | the moonlight | the rustling oaks | midnight | in the girdle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on oak=Location | ||
| 2 | howl | present | the snow glitters and winds | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rise | present | the snow glitters and winds not said here | a white form | the ruins of this robber Schloss; there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient form=Extent from ruin=Initial_State | |||
| 4 | ruin | this robber Schloss | 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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