Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 2
Meanwhile the horses had gone on with the waggon, which they now drew with perfect ease, but stood still before the chapel of Elend, and could not be brought from the spot.
Who acts: horses · What happens: go on, draw, stand, not bring · To what, where: waggon, chapel, spot
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 (horses), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horses | det |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 gone | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 waggon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waggon | det |
| 9 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 drew | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 drew | advmod |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waggon | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 ease | case |
| 16 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ease | amod |
| 17 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | parataxis |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 stood | advmod |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 chapel | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chapel | det |
| 24 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Elend | case |
| 26 | Elend | Elend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 chapel | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 brought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 brought | cc |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 brought | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 brought | aux:pass |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 stood | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 spot | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 spot | det |
| 35 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brought | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · perfect | the horses | with the waggon; meanwhile property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | horses = horse | the waggon | now | with perfect ease | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||
| 3 | stand | past | the chapel of Elend | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before chapel=Location | ||||
| 4 | not bring | could · passive | the spot | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from spot=Initial_Location |
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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