Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 16

Now the Giant had two steeds--giant steeds--one white as the snows of the Northland, his eyes shining like stars; the other, the Giant's body-horse, black as the night, with eyes like the lightning, at whose running his hoofs resounded like thunder, and the earth trembled and shook.

Who acts: Giant, eyes, hoofs, earth, Northland · What happens: have, shine, run, resound, tremble, shake · To what, where: two steeds

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 (Giant, eyes, hoofs, earth), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Giant	det
3	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 steeds	nummod
6	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 steeds	punct
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 steeds	amod
9	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 steeds	conj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 white	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 white	nummod
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steeds	parataxis
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 snows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snows	det
15	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 white	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Northland	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Northland	det
18	Northland	Northland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 snows	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eyes	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Northland	conj
22	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 eyes	acl
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 stars	case
24	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shining	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 other	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 horse	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Giant	det
30	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horse	amod
31	's	's	PART	_	30 Giant	case
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 horse	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 body	punct
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 black	punct
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horse	amod
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 night	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 night	det
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 black	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 eyes	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 eyes	case
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obl
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 lightning	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 lightning	det
45	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 eyes	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 resounded	punct
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 whose	case
48	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	52 resounded	punct
49	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 resounded	advcl
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 hoofs	nmod:poss
51	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 resounded	nsubj
52	resounded	resound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
53	like	like	ADP	_	54 thunder	case
54	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 resounded	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 trembled	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 trembled	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 earth	det
58	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 trembled	nsubj
59	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 shook	cc
61	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 trembled	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Giant	two steeds and giant steeds	now	with eyes like the lightning; the other obl; Giant body horse obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
2	shine	gerund	bridegroom's eyes not said here			like stars	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	gerund	bridegroom's hoofs not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	resound	past	bridegroom's hoofs			like thunder	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tremble	past	the earth				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shake	past	the earth not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	snow		the Northland and bridegroom's eyes				nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 16