Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 9
The Rabenthurm seemed to quake and tremble, he heard distant thunder, and saw the glare of the lightning.
Who acts: Rabenthurm · What happens: seem, quake, tremble, hear, see · To what, where: distant thunder, glare
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 (Rabenthurm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabenthurm | det |
| 2 | Rabenthurm | Rabenthurm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 quake | mark |
| 5 | quake | quake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tremble | cc |
| 7 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quake | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thunder | amod |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glare | det |
| 17 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lightning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lightning | det |
| 20 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glare | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the Rabenthurm | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | quake | to-infinitive | the Rabenthurm not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tremble | infinitive | the Rabenthurm not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | Rabenthurm | distant thunder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Rabenthurm not said here | the glare of the lightning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glare=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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