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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 58

The mountain cracks, the circle on which they stand becomes loose, and sinks slowly into the mountain; the miner, in terror, clings to the cowl of the monk.

Who acts: mountain, thunders, circle, miner · What happens: crack, stand, become, sink, cling · To what, where: circle, mountain

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 (mountain, thunders, circle, miner), 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

detnsubjpunctdetnsubjcaseoblnsubjacl:relclconjxcomppunctccconjadvmodcasedetoblpunctdetnsubjpunctcaseconjpunctconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootTheDETmountainNOUNcracksVERB,PUNCTtheDETcircleNOUNonADPwhichPRONtheyPRONstandVERBbecomesVERBlooseADJ,PUNCTandCCONJsinksVERBslowlyADVintoADPtheDETmountainNOUN;PUNCTtheDETminerNOUN,PUNCTinADPterrorNOUN,PUNCTclingsVERBtoADPtheDETcowlNOUNofADPtheDETmonkNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 mountaindet
2mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing3 cracksnsubj
3crackscrackVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_11 becomespunct
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 circledet
6circlecircleNOUNNumber=Sing11 becomesnsubj
7ononADP_8 whichcase
8whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel10 standobl
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 standnsubj
10standstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 circleacl:relcl
11becomesbecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 cracksconj
12looselooseADJDegree=Pos11 becomesxcomp
13,,PUNCT_15 sinkspunct
14andandCCONJ_15 sinkscc
15sinkssinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 cracksconj
16slowlyslowlyADV_15 sinksadvmod
17intointoADP_19 mountaincase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 mountaindet
19mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing15 sinksobl
20;;PUNCT_27 clingspunct
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 minerdet
22minerminerNOUNNumber=Sing27 clingsnsubj
23,,PUNCT_25 terrorpunct
24ininADP_25 terrorcase
25terrorterrorNOUNNumber=Sing22 minerconj
26,,PUNCT_22 minerpunct
27clingsclingVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 cracksconj
28totoADP_30 cowlcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 cowldet
30cowlcowlNOUNNumber=Sing27 clingsobl
31ofofADP_33 monkcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 monkdet
33monkmonkNOUNNumber=Sing30 cowlnmod
34..PUNCT_3 crackspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1crackpresentthe mountainvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2standpresentthunders = thunderthe circlevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3becomepresentthe circleloose propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4sinkpresentthe mountain not said herethe mountainslowly propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5clingpresentthe miner and terrorto the cowl of the monkvn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to cowl=Co-Theme

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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