Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 133
On the plain, stretching away westward from the once imperial Quedlinburg, is the Devil's Wall, which rises in ragged rocks in the most fantastic shapes and forms, sometimes a hundred feet in height, mostly bare, but nearer to Blankenburg adorned with foliage.
Who acts: plain, Wall · What happens: stretch away, be, rise, adorn · To what, where: imperial Quedlinburg, Wall, plain, ragged rocks, Blankenburg
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (plain, Wall), 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 | _ | 3 plain | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plain | det |
| 3 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Wall | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretching | punct |
| 5 | stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 plain | acl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 stretching | advmod |
| 7 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 5 stretching | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Quedlinburg | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Quedlinburg | det |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 12 Quedlinburg | case |
| 11 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Quedlinburg | amod |
| 12 | Quedlinburg | Quedlinburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stretching | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plain | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Wall | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Devil | det |
| 16 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wall | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Devil | case |
| 18 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rises | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 rises | nsubj |
| 21 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Wall | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 rocks | case |
| 23 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rocks | amod |
| 24 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rises | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 shapes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shapes | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 fantastic | advmod |
| 28 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shapes | amod |
| 29 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rocks | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 forms | cc |
| 31 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shapes | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 feet | punct |
| 33 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 feet | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hundred | det |
| 35 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 feet | nummod |
| 36 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shapes | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 height | case |
| 38 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feet | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bare | punct |
| 40 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 41 bare | advmod |
| 41 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 height | amod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 nearer | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 nearer | cc |
| 44 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 rises | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Blankenburg | case |
| 46 | Blankenburg | Blankenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 adorned | obl |
| 47 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 nearer | advcl |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 foliage | case |
| 49 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 adorned | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch away | gerund | the plain not said here | the imperial Quedlinburg | away, westward property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from quedlinburg=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Devil's Wall | the plain | the Devil nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rise | present | the Devil's Wall | ragged rocks in the fantastic shapes and forms and hundred feet in height | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | adorn | past | the Devil's Wall not said here | Blankenburg | with foliage | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foliage=Theme |
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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