Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 64

Already long the castle has laid in ruins; but the knight rides ever, without rest, on a wild black steed from its lonely tower to the hermit's weeping-willow-shaded grave; and the enchantment can only be broken when the robber-knight, on his night ride, meets one more wicked than himself.

Who acts: knight, weeping, robber knight, hermit · What happens: lay, ride, shade, break, meet, weep · To what, where: castle, ruins, wild black steed, grave, enchantment

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 (knight, weeping, robber knight, hermit), 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	Already	already	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 laid	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 castle	det
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	aux
6	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 ruins	case
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rides	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 rides	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 knight	det
12	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rides	nsubj
13	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	parataxis
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 rides	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rest	punct
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 rest	case
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rides	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 steed	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 steed	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 steed	det
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 steed	amod
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 steed	amod
23	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rides	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 tower	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tower	nmod:poss
26	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tower	amod
27	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 steed	nmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 weeping	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hermit	det
30	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 weeping	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 hermit	case
32	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tower	nmod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 weeping	punct
34	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 weeping	conj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 willow	punct
36	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 weeping	acl
37	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shaded	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 broken	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 broken	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 enchantment	det
41	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 broken	nsubj:pass
42	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 broken	aux
43	only	only	ADV	_	45 broken	advmod
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 broken	aux:pass
45	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rides	conj
46	when	when	SCONJ	_	57 meets	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 knight	det
48	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 knight	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 robber	punct
50	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 meets	nsubj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ride	punct
52	on	on	ADP	_	55 ride	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 ride	nmod:poss
54	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ride	compound
55	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 knight	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 knight	punct
57	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 broken	advcl
58	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 more	nummod
59	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	60 wicked	advmod
60	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 meets	xcomp
61	than	than	ADP	_	62 himself	case
62	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	60 wicked	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · perfect · passive		the castle	ruins		long property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ruin=Destination
2	ride	present	the knight		a wild black steed from castle's lonely tower to the hermit's weeping and willow	ever	without rest	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	shade	participle	the hermit's weeping and willow not said here	grave				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Beneficiary
4	break	can · passive		the enchantment				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	meet	present	the robber knight and hermit's night ride				wicked property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	weep		the hermit					nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=agent
7	ride		hermit					nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 64