Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 103
Deeper in among the mountains stood an old stone Schloss, on the granite wall connecting the Ilsenstein and the opposite-lying Westerberg, which had been bought, and was inhabited by a father and his fair daughter Ilse.
Who acts: Deeper, granite wall, father · What happens: stand, connect, lie, buy, inhabit · To what, where: old stone Schloss, granite wall, Ilsenstein
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deeper, granite wall, father), 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 | Deeper | Deeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountains | det |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Deeper | nmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Schloss | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Schloss | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Schloss | compound |
| 10 | Schloss | schloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wall | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 14 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wall | compound |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 16 | connecting | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 wall | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Ilsenstein | det |
| 18 | Ilsenstein | Ilsenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 connecting | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Westerberg | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Westerberg | det |
| 21 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lying | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 opposite | punct |
| 23 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Westerberg | compound |
| 24 | Westerberg | Westerberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ilsenstein | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bought | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bought | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 bought | aux:pass |
| 29 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Ilsenstein | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 inhabited | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 inhabited | cc |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 33 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 father | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 father | det |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 inhabited | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 daughter | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 39 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 daughter | amod |
| 40 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 father | conj |
| 41 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 daughter | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Deeper in the mountains | a old stone Schloss | the granite wall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent schloss=Theme on wall=Destination | |||
| 2 | connect | gerund | the granite wall not said here | the Ilsenstein and the lying Westerberg | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ilsenstein=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | buy | past · perfect · passive | the Ilsenstein and the lying Westerberg | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | inhabit | past · passive | a father and Schloss's fair daughter | 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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