🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 110

The silence of death reigned; only now and then the dark wings of some nocturnal bird of prey fluttered over his head, and a ghostly rustling was heard among the dry underbrush; the stars seemed like silent, cold eyes looking down on the weary man and horses, the clouds scudded silently past, and the snow, too, was silent as a spirit.

Who acts: stars, silent cold eyes, clouds, snow · What happens: reign, flutter, hear, seem, look down, scud · To what, where: silence, prey, head, ghostly rustling, death

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 (stars, silent cold eyes, clouds, snow), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/110/