Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 46
Above, on the wild rocks, once stood a strong castle, whose walls hid many a deed of horror and crime.
Who acts: walls · What happens: stand, hide · To what, where: strong castle, wild rocks, many deed
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 (walls), 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 | Above | above | ADV | _ | 9 stood | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Above | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 rocks | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rocks | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rocks | compound |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rocks | punct |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 walls | nmod:poss |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hid | nsubj |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deed | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 deed | det |
| 19 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 horror | case |
| 21 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deed | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crime | cc |
| 23 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horror | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a strong castle | the wild rocks | above, once property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on rock=Destination | |||
| 2 | hide | past | walls | a many deed of horror and crime | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Patient |
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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