Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 93
Shouts of merriment and scraps of song rang over the laughing landscape to the wood where Arno lay concealed, watching the charming scene.
Who acts: Shouts · What happens: ring, laugh, conceal, watch, shout · To what, where: laughing landscape, Arno, charming scene, merriment
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 (Shouts), 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 | Shouts | shout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rang | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 merriment | case |
| 3 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shouts | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scraps | cc |
| 5 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 merriment | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 song | case |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scraps | nmod |
| 8 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 landscape | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 landscape | det |
| 11 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 landscape | amod |
| 12 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rang | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rang | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 concealed | advmod |
| 17 | Arno | Arno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 concealed | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 concealed | aux:pass |
| 19 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wood | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 watching | punct |
| 21 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rang | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 scene | det |
| 23 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scene | compound |
| 24 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watching | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | Shouts of merriment and scraps of song | the laughing landscape | to the wood | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over landscape=Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | conceal | past · passive | Arno | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | Shouts of merriment and scraps of song not said here | the charming scene | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shout | merriment and scraps of song | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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