Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 111

The lonely traveller grew more terrified, and urging on his horses, the waggon suddenly sank in a deep place, and no efforts of the tired animals could move it from the spot.

Who acts: lonely traveller, waggon, efforts · What happens: grow, urge, sink, move · To what, where: deep place, horse, spot

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 (lonely traveller, waggon, efforts), 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	3 traveller	det
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 traveller	amod
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 terrified	advmod
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 urging	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 urging	cc
9	urging	urge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grew	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 horses	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horses	nmod:poss
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 urging	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waggon	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 waggon	det
15	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horses	appos
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 sank	advmod
17	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waggon	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sank	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 move	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 move	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 efforts	det
25	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 move	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 animals	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 animals	det
28	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 animals	amod
29	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 efforts	nmod
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 move	aux
31	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grew	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 move	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 spot	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spot	det
35	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 move	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the lonely traveller			terrified property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	urge	gerund	the lonely traveller not said here			on traveller's horses	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sink	past	the waggon not said here		a deep place	suddenly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	move	could	no efforts of the tired animals	horse	the spot		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from spot=Trajectory

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 111