Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 22
The water sprang gaily out of the soft moss, and murmured ever in a thousand leaps and tiny waterfalls over the moss-grown rocks adown the vale.
Who acts: water · What happens: spring, murmur, grow · To what, where: soft moss, vale, thousand leaps
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 (water), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 moss | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 moss | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moss | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moss | amod |
| 9 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 murmured | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 murmured | cc |
| 12 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 murmured | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 leaps | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thousand | det |
| 16 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 leaps | nummod |
| 17 | leaps | leap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 murmured | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 waterfalls | cc |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 waterfalls | amod |
| 20 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leaps | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 adown | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 adown | det |
| 23 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grown | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 moss | punct |
| 25 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 rocks | amod |
| 26 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 adown | compound |
| 27 | adown | adown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 murmured | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 vale | det |
| 29 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 murmured | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the water | the soft moss | gaily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out moss=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | the water not said here | the vale | thousand leaps and tiny waterfalls | ever | over the rocks adown | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leap=Location | |
| 3 | grow | participle | moss compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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