Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 16
Two huge granite boulders, lying as if they had been placed there by hands, are the remains of the Teufelsmühle.
Who acts: Two huge granite boulders, hands · What happens: lie, place, be · To what, where: boulders, remains
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 (Two huge granite boulders, hands), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 boulders | nummod |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boulders | amod |
| 3 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boulders | compound |
| 4 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 remains | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lying | punct |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 boulders | acl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 placed | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 placed | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lying | advcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 placed | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 placed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boulders | punct |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 remains | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 remains | det |
| 19 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Teufelsmühle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Teufelsmühle | det |
| 22 | Teufelsmühle | Teufelsmühle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 remains | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | Two huge granite boulders not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | place | past · perfect · passive | hands | boulders = boulder | there | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Two huge granite boulders | the remains | of the Teufelsmühle | tree rules |
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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