Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 45
Beneath, in the still valley, is a half-sunken grave, and a weeping willow spreads sadly her branches over it.
Who acts: valley, weeping willow · What happens: be, spread · To what, where: sunken grave, branches, valley
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valley, weeping willow), 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 | Beneath | beneath | INTJ | _ | 6 valley | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 valley | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 valley | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 valley | det |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 valley | advmod |
| 6 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grave | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 valley | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grave | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grave | det |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 sunken | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 half | punct |
| 12 | sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grave | amod |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spreads | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spreads | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 willow | det |
| 17 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 willow | compound |
| 18 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spreads | nsubj |
| 19 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grave | conj |
| 20 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 22 branches | advmod |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 branches | nmod:poss |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spreads | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spreads | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 grave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the valley | a sunken grave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | a weeping willow | willow's branches | valley | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over 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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