Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 38
At last it became broad day, and a great heap of gold lay on the hearth, and on the spot where she had seen the fire, lay only pebbles.
Who acts: hearth, great heap, heap · What happens: become, lay, see · To what, where: last, hearth, fire, pebbles, 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 (hearth, great heap, heap), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heap | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heap | amod |
| 11 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heap | nmod |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hearth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearth | det |
| 17 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lay | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lay | cc |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 spot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lay | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 seen | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 spot | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fire | det |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spot | punct |
| 30 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lay | conj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 pebbles | advmod |
| 32 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lay | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | hearth | last | day | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | lay | present | a great heap of gold | the hearth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hearth=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | heap | the fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | a great heap of gold not said here | pebbles | the spot | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme on spot=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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