Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 41
Suddenly the portrait of Henry the Lion advanced into the room, and Duke Henry stood in the opening it had left in the wall.
Who acts: portrait, Duke Henry, opening · What happens: advance, stand, leave, portray · To what, where: room, opening, portrait, wall, Henry
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portrait, Duke Henry, opening), 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 | _ | 8 advanced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 portrait | det |
| 3 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advanced | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Henry | case |
| 5 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 portrait | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Henry | appos |
| 8 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advanced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 14 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Henry | compound |
| 15 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 advanced | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 opening | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 opening | det |
| 19 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 opening | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wall | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wall | det |
| 25 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | the portrait of Henry | the room | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Duke Henry | the opening | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in opening=Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the opening not said here | portrait | the wall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wall=Location | |||
| 4 | portray | Henry | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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