Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 5
But the spring bubbled up in a deep valley, and a long chain of hills lay between it and the town.
Who acts: long chain · What happens: bubble up, lay · To what, where: deep valley, valley
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long chain), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 bubbled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spring | det |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bubbled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 bubbled | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 valley | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 valley | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 valley | amod |
| 9 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bubbled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chain | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chain | amod |
| 14 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hills | case |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chain | nmod |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bubbled | parataxis |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 town | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bubbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bubble up | participle | a deep valley | spring | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | a long chain of hills | valley | the town conj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between it=Destination |
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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