Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 13
On the grey stone balcony stood, one summer day in 1537, two persons in close conversation.
What happens: stand · To what, where: two persons, grey stone balcony
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 balcony | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 balcony | det |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 balcony | amod |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 balcony | compound |
| 5 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 day | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | compound |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1537 | case |
| 12 | 1537 | 1537 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 persons | punct |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 persons | nummod |
| 15 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 conversation | case |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 conversation | amod |
| 18 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 persons | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | two persons in close conversation | the grey stone balcony | day | in 1537 | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location |
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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