Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 85
Arno, the wildest and most powerful robber knight of the Harz, dwelt securely enthroned in his strong Burg, the Arnstein, which lay on the Felsberg like an eagle's nest, from whose strong walls the old eagle flew daily forth for robbery and murder.
Who acts: strong Burg, old eagle · What happens: enthrone, lie, fly · To what, where: wildest powerful robber knight, strong Burg, Felsberg, strong walls
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong Burg, old eagle), 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 | Arno | arno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enthroned | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arno | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 4 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 knight | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knight | cc |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 powerful | advmod |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 8 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knight | compound |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enthroned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Harz | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Harz | det |
| 12 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 knight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Harz | punct |
| 14 | dwelt | dwell | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 enthroned | aux |
| 15 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 16 enthroned | advmod |
| 16 | enthroned | enthrone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Burg | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Burg | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Burg | amod |
| 20 | Burg | Burg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 enthroned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Arnstein | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Arnstein | det |
| 23 | Arnstein | Arnstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Burg | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lay | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Burg | acl:relcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 Felsberg | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Felsberg | det |
| 29 | Felsberg | Felsberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 nest | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 eagle | det |
| 32 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 nest | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 eagle | case |
| 34 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 flew | punct |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 walls | case |
| 37 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 39 walls | nmod:poss |
| 38 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 walls | amod |
| 39 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 flew | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 eagle | det |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 eagle | amod |
| 42 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 flew | nsubj |
| 43 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 enthroned | conj |
| 44 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 45 forth | advmod |
| 45 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 43 flew | advmod |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 robbery | case |
| 47 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 flew | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 murder | cc |
| 49 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 robbery | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 enthroned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enthrone | past · passive | the wildest powerful robber knight of the Harz | Graf's strong Burg | Arno obl; securely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | past | Graf's strong Burg | the Felsberg | like a eagle's nest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on felsberg=Location | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the old eagle | strong walls | for robbery and murder; forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wall=Trajectory |
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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