Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 1
He used the formula employed to open the gates of the spirit-world, and instantly, white as a swan, rose the virgin beautiful to behold.
Who acts: He, formula · What happens: use, employ, open, rise · To what, where: gates, virgin
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, formula), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 formula | det |
| 4 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | nsubj |
| 5 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 used | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 employed | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gates | det |
| 9 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 open | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 world | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 spirit | punct |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gates | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 white | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 white | cc |
| 17 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 19 white | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 instantly | punct |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 used | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 swan | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 swan | det |
| 22 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 white | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rose | punct |
| 24 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 used | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 virgin | det |
| 26 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rose | obj |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rose | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 behold | case |
| 29 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 27 beautiful | discourse |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | He | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | employ | past | the formula | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | the formula not said here | the gates of the spirit world | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | He not said here | the virgin | beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location virgin=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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