Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 25
Then the black wings of the arch-fiend unfolded and spread themselves, he soared high in the air, let fall the millstone on the miller, who was buried beneath it and the ruins of the mill, broken to atoms.
Who acts: black wings, fear · What happens: unfold, spread, soar, let, fall, bury · To what, where: wings, millstone, miller, ruins, mill
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 (black wings, fear), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 unfolded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wings | det |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wings | amod |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unfolded | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 arch-fiend | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arch-fiend | det |
| 7 | arch-fiend | arch-fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | nmod |
| 8 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spread | cc |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unfolded | conj |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 spread | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soared | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 soared | nsubj |
| 14 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unfolded | conj |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soared | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 soared | conj |
| 21 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 millstone | det |
| 23 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 miller | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 miller | det |
| 26 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 buried | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 buried | aux:pass |
| 30 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 miller | acl:relcl |
| 31 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 buried | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ruins | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ruins | det |
| 35 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 buried | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 mill | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mill | det |
| 38 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ruins | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 broken | punct |
| 40 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 ruins | acl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 atoms | case |
| 42 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 broken | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unfolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | past | the black wings of the arch-fiend | then | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | the black wings of the arch-fiend not said here | wings = wing | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | ||||
| 3 | soar | past | fear | in the air; high property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in air=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | fear not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fall | infinitive | fear not said here | the millstone | the miller | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient millstone=Result | |||
| 6 | bury | past · passive | the miller | millstone | the ruins of the mill conj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beneath it=Destination | |||
| 7 | break | participle | the ruins of the mill not said here | to atoms result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to atom=Result | ||||
| 8 | ruin | the mill | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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