Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 65

Dark cypresses rose behind the stone walls, and fig trees thrust their wonderfully crooked fingers forward, as if they would draw him in; shining lizards crept up the wall, glanced at him with their glittering eyes, and then wriggled hurriedly into the garden, which he could see through a grated gate under a great arch.

Who acts: Dark cypresses, cypresses, lizards, man · What happens: rise, draw in, shine, creep up, glance, wriggle · To what, where: trees thrust, stone walls, man, wall, garden, grated gate

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 (Dark cypresses, cypresses, lizards, man), 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	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cypresses	amod
2	cypresses	cypress	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	compound
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thrust	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thrust	cc
10	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trees	compound
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thrust	compound
12	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	obl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fingers	nmod:poss
14	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	15 crooked	advmod
15	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fingers	amod
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thrust	nmod
17	forward	forward	ADV	_	16 fingers	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 draw	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 draw	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 draw	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 draw	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 draw	aux
23	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rose	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 draw	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	23 draw	compound:prt
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 shining	punct
27	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rose	advcl
28	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 crept	nsubj
29	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shining	ccomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 crept	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wall	det
32	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crept	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 glanced	punct
34	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crept	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 glanced	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	40 eyes	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 eyes	nmod:poss
39	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eyes	compound
40	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 glanced	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 wriggled	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 wriggled	cc
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 wriggled	advmod
44	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
45	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	_	44 wriggled	advmod
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 garden	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 garden	det
48	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wriggled	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 see	punct
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 see	obj
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 see	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 see	aux
53	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 garden	acl:relcl
54	through	through	ADP	_	57 gate	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 gate	det
56	grated	grate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 gate	amod
57	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 see	obl
58	under	under	ADP	_	61 arch	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 arch	det
60	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 arch	amod
61	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 gate	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	Dark cypresses	trees thrust cypresses's crooked fingers	the stone walls			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind wall=Location
2	draw in a condition, not said to happen	would	cypresses = cypress	man				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	shine	gerund	Dark cypresses not said here					tree rules
4	creep up	past	lizards	the wall				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	glance	past	lizards not said here				at man; with lizards's glittering eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
6	wriggle	past	Dark cypresses not said here		the garden	then	hurriedly property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see	could	man	the garden	a grated gate under a great arch			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
8	grate	participle						vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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 65