Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 79

It was a very dark night, and returning home from the village and opening the cottage door he almost sank down from terror, for it was light as if the house were on fire.

Who acts: thought, Ei · What happens: be, return, open, sink down · To what, where: dark night, village, cottage door, terror, fire

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, Ei), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sank	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sank	cc
9	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sank	advcl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 returning	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returning	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 opening	cc
15	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 returning	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	compound
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opening	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sank	nsubj
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 sank	advmod
21	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	advcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sank	compound:prt
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 terror	case
24	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sank	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 light	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 light	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 light	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 light	cop
29	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sank	parataxis
30	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 house	case
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 as	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 light	obl
34	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 light	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 fire	case
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 were	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	thought	a dark night			tree rules
2	return	gerund	Ei not said here		the village	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from village=Initial_Location
3	open	gerund	Ei not said here	the cottage door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	sink down	past	Ei		terror	almost property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	thought			as the house; light property	tree rules
6	be	past	thought not said here		fire		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fire=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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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 79