Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 47
Below, in the peaceful vale, there was a small, simple hermitage, where an old hermit had dwelt alone long years.
Who acts: small simple hermitage · What happens: be, dwell · To what, where: old hermit
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 (small simple hermitage), 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 | Below | below | ADV | _ | 9 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Below | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 vale | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vale | det |
| 5 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vale | amod |
| 6 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Below | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Below | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hermitage | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hermitage | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 small | punct |
| 13 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hermitage | amod |
| 14 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwelt | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 dwelt | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hermit | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hermit | amod |
| 19 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dwelt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dwelt | aux |
| 21 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hermitage | acl:relcl |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 dwelt | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dwelt | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a small simple hermitage | there | below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | dwell | past · perfect · passive | a old hermit | year | alone property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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