Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 107
The wind grew every moment more sharp and cutting, the snow deeper, and the difficulty greater for the tired horses to draw their weary load.
Who acts: wind, tired horses · What happens: grow, cut, draw · To what, where: weary load
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 (wind, tired horses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sharp | advmod |
| 7 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cutting | cc |
| 9 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sharp | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 snow | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snow | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moment | conj |
| 13 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 snow | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 greater | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 greater | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 difficulty | det |
| 17 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greater | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 draw | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horses | det |
| 21 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 horses | amod |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 draw | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 draw | mark |
| 24 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 greater | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 load | nmod:poss |
| 26 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 load | amod |
| 27 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 draw | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the wind | moment | great property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut | gerund | the wind not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | the tired horses | drifts's weary load | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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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