Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 77
Suddenly the most terrible thunder rolled, a mighty flash of lightning swept the hall, the earth quaked and opened, the walls trembled, the tower shook and fell with an awful noise that was heard miles away.
Who acts: mighty flash, earth, walls, tower, lightning · What happens: roll, sweep, quake, open, tremble, shake · To what, where: terrible thunder, hall, awful noise
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 (mighty flash, earth, walls, tower), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thunder | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 terrible | advmod |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thunder | amod |
| 5 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 swept | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rolled | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flash | det |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flash | amod |
| 10 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swept | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lightning | case |
| 12 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flash | nmod |
| 13 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swept | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quaked | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quaked | nsubj |
| 19 | quaked | quake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 swept | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opened | cc |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 quaked | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 trembled | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 walls | det |
| 24 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trembled | nsubj |
| 25 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shook | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tower | det |
| 28 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shook | nsubj |
| 29 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trembled | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fell | cc |
| 31 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 shook | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 noise | case |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 noise | det |
| 34 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 noise | amod |
| 35 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fell | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 heard | aux:pass |
| 38 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 noise | acl:relcl |
| 39 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 away | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 heard | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | participle · passive | the terrible thunder | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | a mighty flash of lightning | the hall | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | quake | past | the earth | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | open | past | the earth not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tremble | past | the walls | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | shake | past | the tower | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | fall | past | the tower not said here | with a awful noise | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hear | past · passive | a awful noise | away property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | flash | lightning | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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