Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 9

When he had uttered these words, he struck with trembling arm the rough cliff, and lo! the firm rock yielded like soft clay to the weak blow of the wooden axe!

Who acts: wood, wooden axe · What happens: utter, strike, tremble, yield, blow · To what, where: words, arm, firm rock

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 (wood, wooden axe), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 uttered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 uttered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 uttered	aux
4	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 struck	advcl
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 uttered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 uttered	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 struck	nsubj
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 trembling	mark
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 struck	advcl
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trembling	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cliff	det
14	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cliff	amod
15	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trembling	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lo	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lo	cc
18	lo	lo	INTJ	_	9 struck	discourse
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 lo	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rock	det
21	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rock	amod
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lo	appos
23	yielded	yield	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 rock	acl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 clay	case
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 clay	amod
26	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yielded	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 blow	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 blow	det
29	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 blow	amod
30	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yielded	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 axe	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 axe	det
33	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 axe	amod
34	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blow	nmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past · perfect	wood	this words		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	strike	past	wood			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	tremble	gerund	wood not said here	arm	the rough cliff obj	tree rules
4	yield	participle		the firm rock not said here	like soft clay; to the weak blow of the wooden axe	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to blow=Theme
5	blow		the wooden axe			nom blow «act 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 9