Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 8
In this valley, on the rushing, roaring Innerste, stood the cottage of unhewn trees and stones, covered with moss, in which father and son led a contented life.
Who acts: valley, Innerste, father · What happens: rush, roar, stand, cover, lead, content · To what, where: cottage, unhewn trees, contented life, valley
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valley, Innerste, father), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 valley | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 valley | det |
| 3 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 valley | punct |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 rushing | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rushing | det |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 valley | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roaring | punct |
| 9 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 rushing | conj |
| 10 | Innerste | Innerste | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Innerste | punct |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 roaring | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | unhewn | unhewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cottage | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stones | cc |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 trees | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 covered | punct |
| 21 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 trees | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 moss | case |
| 23 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 covered | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 led | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 led | obl |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 led | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 son | cc |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 father | conj |
| 30 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 life | det |
| 32 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 led | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 valley | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | this valley not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roar | gerund | this valley not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | Innerste | the cottage of unhewn trees and stones | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | unhewn trees and stones not said here | with moss | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | father and son | a contented life | which obl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in which=Destination | |||
| 6 | content | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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