Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 59
How long he had slept he could not tell; as he opened his eyes he saw himself in a perfectly strange place, in which directly before him rose a stately, wonderful castle, surrounded by a high wall.
Who acts: One · What happens: sleep, not tell, open, see, rise, surround · To what, where: eyes, One, strange place, wonderful castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 slept | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slept | aux |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slept | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 opened | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 opened | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slept | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 opened | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opened | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 21 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 22 strange | advmod |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 place | amod |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rose | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 rose | obl |
| 27 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 30 rose | advmod |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 rose | mark |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 rose | nsubj |
| 30 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 castle | det |
| 32 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 34 wonderful | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stately | punct |
| 34 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 castle | amod |
| 35 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rose | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 surrounded | punct |
| 37 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 castle | acl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 wall | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 wall | det |
| 40 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 wall | amod |
| 41 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 surrounded | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · perfect | One | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | could | One | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | open | past | One | One's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | One | One | a strange place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | rise | past | One | a wonderful castle | which obl; directly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location castle=Theme | |||
| 6 | surround | participle | a wonderful castle not said here | by a high wall | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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