Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 19
The broken fountain suggested a feeling of loneliness, and the high old grey stone walls enclosing the castle shut it out--or in--from the world beyond, and all the events now transpiring behind them were a profound secret.
Who acts: broken fountain, high old grey stone walls, events, transpiring · What happens: break, suggest, enclose, shut out, transpire, be · To what, where: feeling, world, castle, profound secret
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: who acts (broken fountain, high old grey stone walls, events, transpiring), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fountain | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fountain | amod |
| 3 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggested | nsubj |
| 4 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feeling | det |
| 6 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggested | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 loneliness | case |
| 8 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feeling | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shut | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 walls | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 walls | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 walls | amod |
| 14 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 walls | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walls | compound |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shut | nsubj |
| 17 | enclosing | enclose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 walls | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enclosing | obj |
| 20 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggested | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shut | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 shut | compound:prt |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 world | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 world | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 world | punct |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggested | obl |
| 30 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 29 world | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 transpiring | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 transpiring | cc |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 events | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 events | det |
| 35 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 transpiring | nsubj |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 transpiring | advmod |
| 37 | transpiring | transpire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 secret | csubj |
| 38 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 transpiring | obl |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 secret | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 secret | det |
| 42 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 secret | amod |
| 43 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggested | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the broken fountain | a feeling of loneliness | the world | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic | |||
| 3 | enclose | gerund | the high old grey stone walls not said here | the castle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | shut out | past | the high old grey stone walls | castle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | transpire | gerund | all events | now | behind walls = wall | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind they=Location | |||
| 6 | is a | past | transpiring | a profound secret | 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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