Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 115
Suddenly he heard a rustling in the thicket, and a female form, like the silver moon when she appears above the peaks of the mountains, glided out of the darkness into view, slender as the fir-tree of the Harz, rosy as the early dawn, fresh as meadow-dew, beautiful as eternal youth.
Who acts: Loud, rustling · What happens: hear, appear, glide · To what, where: rustling, thicket, peaks, darkness
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 (Loud, rustling), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rustling | det |
| 5 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 thicket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thicket | det |
| 8 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rustling | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 form | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 form | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 form | det |
| 12 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 form | amod |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moon | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moon | compound |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | conj |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 appears | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 appears | nsubj |
| 21 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 moon | advcl |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 peaks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 peaks | det |
| 24 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 appears | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mountains | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mountains | det |
| 27 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 peaks | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 glided | punct |
| 29 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 peaks | acl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 darkness | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 darkness | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 darkness | det |
| 33 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 glided | obl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 view | case |
| 35 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 glided | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 slender | punct |
| 37 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 view | amod |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 tree | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 tree | det |
| 40 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tree | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 fir | punct |
| 42 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 slender | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Harz | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Harz | det |
| 45 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 tree | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 rosy | punct |
| 47 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 tree | conj |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 dawn | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 dawn | det |
| 50 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 dawn | amod |
| 51 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 rosy | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 fresh | punct |
| 53 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 dawn | amod |
| 54 | as | as | ADP | _ | 57 dew | case |
| 55 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 dew | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 meadow | punct |
| 57 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 fresh | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 beautiful | punct |
| 59 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 dew | amod |
| 60 | as | as | ADP | _ | 62 youth | case |
| 61 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 youth | amod |
| 62 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 beautiful | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Loud | a rustling | the thicket | a female form obl; the silver moon conj; suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | appear | present | rustling | the peaks of the mountains | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above peak=Location | ||||
| 3 | glide | participle | the peaks of the mountains not said here | the darkness | into view | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme out darkness=Source into view=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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