Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 30

At sight of him she let loose her reins, and the mighty steed shot forth, swift as the storm-wind, like a streak of light, into the darkness of the night.

Who acts: Brunhilda, mighty steed · What happens: let, lose, shoot, sight · To what, where: sight, reins, swift, thought

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 (Brunhilda, mighty steed), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 sight	case
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sight	nmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 reins	nmod:poss
9	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loose	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shot	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shot	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 steed	det
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 steed	amod
14	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shot	nsubj
15	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
16	forth	forth	ADV	_	15 shot	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swift	punct
18	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shot	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	23 wind	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wind	det
21	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wind	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 storm	punct
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shot	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 streak	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 streak	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 streak	det
27	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wind	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 light	case
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 streak	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 darkness	punct
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 darkness	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 darkness	det
33	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shot	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 night	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 darkness	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	Brunhilda		sight of thought		tree rules
2	lose	infinitive	Brunhilda not said here	Brunhilda's reins			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Eventuality
3	shoot	past	the mighty steed	swift		as the storm wind and a streak of light; the darkness of the night parataxis; forth property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sight			thought			nom sight «cognition 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 30