Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 60
When the moonbeams fall soft and pale on castle and rocks, he tears in a wild gallop on his black horse below into the quiet valley.
Who acts: moonbeams, horse · What happens: fall, tear · To what, where: wild gallop
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 (moonbeams, horse), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 fall | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moonbeams | det |
| 3 | moonbeams | moonbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tears | advcl |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fall | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pale | cc |
| 7 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soft | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soft | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rocks | cc |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 castle | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tears | nsubj |
| 14 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gallop | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gallop | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gallop | amod |
| 18 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tears | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 horse | amod |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gallop | nmod |
| 23 | below | below | ADV | _ | 22 horse | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 valley | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 valley | det |
| 26 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 valley | amod |
| 27 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tears | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | the moonbeams | soft property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear | present | horse | a wild gallop on horse's black horse | into the quiet valley | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into valley=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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