Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 49
The castle clock was ringing ten when two muffled figures stole through a postern gate of the garden wall behind it into the park, and, concealed by the darkness, hastened through by-paths to the lime-tree arbour.
Who acts: castle clock, two figures · What happens: ring, muffle, steal, conceal, hasten · To what, where: ten, postern gate, paths
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 (castle clock, two figures), 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 clock | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clock | compound |
| 3 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ringing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ringing | aux |
| 5 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ringing | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stole | advmod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 figures | nummod |
| 9 | muffled | muffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 two | acl:relcl |
| 10 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stole | nsubj |
| 11 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ringing | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 gate | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gate | det |
| 14 | postern | postern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gate | compound |
| 15 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stole | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wall | compound |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gate | nmod |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wall | nmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 park | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 park | det |
| 24 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stole | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 concealed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 concealed | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 concealed | punct |
| 28 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ringing | parataxis |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 darkness | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 darkness | det |
| 31 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 concealed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hastened | punct |
| 33 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 concealed | conj |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 paths | case |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 paths | case |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 by | punct |
| 37 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hastened | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 arbour | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 arbour | det |
| 40 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tree | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 lime | punct |
| 42 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 arbour | compound |
| 43 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paths | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past · progressive | the castle clock | ten | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ten=Theme | ||||
| 2 | muffle | past | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | steal | past | two figures | a postern gate of the garden wall behind clock | into the park | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Location | |||
| 4 | conceal | participle | by the darkness | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by darkness=Location | |||||
| 5 | hasten | participle | paths to the tree arbour | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through path=Trajectory |
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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