Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 124
Centuries ago a convent stood near, and a monk belonging to it, longing to possess some of the treasures of the underworld, was once bold enough, as the bells rang midnight, to climb to the spot where the fairy dwelt.
Who acts: convent, monk, bells, fairy · What happens: stand, belong, long, possess, be, ring · To what, where: convent, some, spot, underworld
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 (convent, monk, bells, fairy), 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 | Centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 convent | det |
| 4 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bold | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bold | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 monk | det |
| 10 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bold | nsubj |
| 11 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 monk | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belonging | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 longing | punct |
| 15 | longing | long | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 belonging | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 possess | mark |
| 17 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 longing | xcomp |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 possess | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 treasures | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 treasures | det |
| 21 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 some | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 underworld | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 underworld | det |
| 24 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 treasures | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 monk | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 bold | cop |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 bold | advmod |
| 28 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 29 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 bold | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rang | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 rang | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bells | det |
| 33 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rang | nsubj |
| 34 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 35 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rang | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 climb | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 climb | mark |
| 38 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 rang | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 spot | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 spot | det |
| 41 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 climb | obl |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 dwelt | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 fairy | det |
| 44 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dwelt | nsubj |
| 45 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 spot | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a convent | ago, near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | belong | gerund | a monk not said here | convent | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | long | gerund | a monk not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | possess not said to happen | to-infinitive | a monk not said here | some of the treasures of the underworld | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot some=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a monk | bold, enough, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ring | past | the bells | midnight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | climb | to-infinitive | the bells not said here | the spot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 8 | dwell | past | the fairy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | treasure | the underworld | nom treasure «possession 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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