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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 46

The Kaiser's eyes are closed, but at times he seems to awake from his enchanted slumber, and new life seems to animate the stiffened limbs.

Who acts: tradition, new life · What happens: close, seem, awake, enchant, animate, stiffen · To what, where: eyes, enchanted slumber, stiffened limbs

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 (tradition, new life), 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

detnmod:posscasensubj:passaux:passpunctcccaseoblnsubjadvclmarkxcompcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccamodnsubjconjmarkxcompdetamodobjpunctrootTheDETKaiserPROPN'sPARTeyesNOUNareAUXclosedVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJatADPtimesNOUNhePRONseemsVERBtoPARTawakeVERBfromADPhisPRONenchantedVERBslumberNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJnewADJlifeNOUNseemsVERBtoPARTanimateVERBtheDETstiffenedVERBlimbsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Kaiserdet
2KaiserKaiserPROPNNumber=Sing4 eyesnmod:poss
3's'sPART_2 Kaisercase
4eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur6 closednsubj:pass
5arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 closedaux:pass
6closedcloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7,,PUNCT_12 seemspunct
8butbutCCONJ_12 seemscc
9atatADP_10 timescase
10timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur12 seemsobl
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 seemsnsubj
12seemsseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 closedadvcl
13totoPART_14 awakemark
14awakeawakeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 seemsxcomp
15fromfromADP_18 slumbercase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 slumbernmod:poss
17enchantedenchantVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 slumberamod
18slumberslumberNOUNNumber=Sing14 awakeobl
19,,PUNCT_23 seemspunct
20andandCCONJ_23 seemscc
21newnewADJDegree=Pos22 lifeamod
22lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing23 seemsnsubj
23seemsseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 seemsconj
24totoPART_25 animatemark
25animateanimateVERBVerbForm=Inf23 seemsxcomp
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 limbsdet
27stiffenedstiffenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 limbsamod
28limbslimbNOUNNumber=Plur25 animateobj
29..PUNCT_6 closedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1closepresent · passivethe Kaiser's eyesvn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2seempresenttraditiontimevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3awaketo-infinitivetradition not said heretradition's enchanted slumbervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4enchantparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5seempresentnew lifevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6animateto-infinitivenew life not said herethe stiffened limbsvn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient
7stiffenparticiplevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8slumbertraditionnom slumber «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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