Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 6

And the monk thought and studied, for before his soul stood the fragrant dishes of his convent and the costly wines, as attractive as the fleshpots of Egypt to the Jews; but with this vision stood the hangman, hand-in-hand with the impossibility of moving this spring through these hills, grinning in diabolical glee.

Who acts: monk, impossibility · What happens: think, study, stand, move, grin · To what, where: fragrant dishes, soul, hangman, hills · 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 (monk, impossibility), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monk	det
3	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 studied	cc
6	studied	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 stood	mark
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 soul	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 soul	nmod:poss
11	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 studied	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dishes	det
14	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dishes	amod
15	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stood	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 convent	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 convent	nmod:poss
18	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dishes	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wines	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wines	det
21	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wines	amod
22	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dishes	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 attractive	punct
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 attractive	advmod
25	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stood	conj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 fleshpots	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fleshpots	det
28	fleshpots	fleshpot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 attractive	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Egypt	case
30	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 fleshpots	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 Jews	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Jews	det
33	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 fleshpots	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 stood	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 stood	cc
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 vision	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 vision	det
38	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stood	obl
39	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hangman	det
41	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stood	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 hand	punct
43	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hand	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 hand	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 hand	case
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 in	punct
47	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hangman	appos
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 impossibility	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 impossibility	det
50	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hand	nmod
51	of	of	SCONJ	_	52 moving	mark
52	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 impossibility	acl
53	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 spring	det
54	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 moving	obj
55	through	through	ADP	_	57 hills	case
56	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	57 hills	det
57	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 moving	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 grinning	punct
59	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 stood	advcl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 glee	case
61	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 glee	amod
62	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 grinning	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the monk					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	study	past						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past		the fragrant dishes of monk's convent and the costly wines	monk's soul			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme before soul=Destination
4	stand	past	the monk not said here	the hangman			with this vision	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hangman=Stimulus
5	move	gerund	the impossibility not said here		this hills	spring		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through hill=Trajectory
6	grin	gerund	the monk not said here				in diabolical glee	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glee=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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 6