Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 19
Often the miller had sat on the summit of the mountain, and thought how nice it would be if the mill only stood there in the free, full breeze, with a strong tower, built from the materials that lay scattered around in superfluous abundance.
Who acts: mill, miller, materials · What happens: sit, think, stand, be, build, lay · To what, where: miller, summit, free full breeze, strong tower, materials, superfluous abundance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mill, miller, materials), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 miller | det |
| 3 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | aux |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 summit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 summit | det |
| 8 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 summit | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 nice | advmod |
| 16 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 tower | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 tower | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 tower | cop |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 stood | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mill | det |
| 22 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 stood | advmod |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 tower | advcl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 stood | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 breeze | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 breeze | det |
| 28 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 breeze | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 free | punct |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 breeze | amod |
| 31 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tower | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 tower | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 tower | det |
| 35 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 tower | amod |
| 36 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 built | punct |
| 38 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 tower | acl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 materials | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 materials | det |
| 41 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 built | obl |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 lay | nsubj |
| 43 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 materials | acl:relcl |
| 44 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 lay | xcomp |
| 45 | around | around | ADV | _ | 44 scattered | advmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 abundance | case |
| 47 | superfluous | superfluous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 abundance | amod |
| 48 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 scattered | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · perfect · passive | the miller | the summit of the mountain | often property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on summit=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | nice property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand a condition, not said to happen | past | the mill | the free full breeze; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in breeze=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | would | miller | with a strong tower | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | build | participle | a strong tower not said here | the materials | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from material=Material | ||||
| 6 | lay | present | the materials | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | scatter around | participle | the materials not said here | superfluous abundance | around property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in abundance=Destination |
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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