Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 69
Centuries ago a stately castle stood on the spot, in which there was always much drinking, gambling and wild merriment.
Who acts: Centuries · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: spot, much drinking
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 (Centuries), 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 | Centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 stood | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 4 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 castle | amod |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 spot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drinking | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 was | obl |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drinking | cop |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drinking | amod |
| 17 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gambling | punct |
| 19 | gambling | gambling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drinking | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 merriment | cc |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 merriment | amod |
| 22 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gambling | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Centuries | the spot | a stately castle nsubj; ago property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | much drinking and gambling and wild merriment | always | gambling and wild merriment conj | tree rules |
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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