Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 6
In a few moments the trembling old man was seized by the giant forms, led down from the summit of the mountain to a place suitable for the execution.
Who acts: giant forms · What happens: seize, lead down · To what, where: old man, giant forms, summit
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 (giant forms), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seized | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | aux:pass |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 forms | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forms | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forms | amod |
| 14 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seized | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 forms | acl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 led | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 summit | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 summit | det |
| 20 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 summit | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 27 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 execution | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 execution | det |
| 30 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 suitable | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | the giant forms | the old man | moment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead down | participle | the giant forms not said here | the summit of the mountain | to a place | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to place=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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