Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 31
The Giant uttered a cry of fury that shook the castle to its foundations, seized his battle-axe, and mounted his war-horse, crying: "If she flee to the Nidhöggar[3] in the Schlangengrund[4] I will bring her hence!"
Who acts: Giant, cry, horse, fury · What happens: utter, shake, seize, mount, cry, flee · To what, where: cry, castle, foundations, battle axe, war horse, Schlangengrund · Speech: someone speaks here
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, cry, horse, fury), 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 | 2 Giant | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fury | case |
| 7 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 shook | nsubj |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shook | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 foundations | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foundations | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shook | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seized | punct |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shook | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 axe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 axe | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 battle | punct |
| 20 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seized | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mounted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mounted | cc |
| 23 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uttered | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 horse | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 war | punct |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mounted | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crying | punct |
| 29 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 mounted | advcl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 flee | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 flee | punct |
| 32 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 flee | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 flee | nsubj |
| 34 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uttered | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Nidhöggar | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Nidhöggar | det |
| 37 | Nidhöggar | Nidhöggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 flee | obl |
| 38 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 39 3 | punct |
| 39 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 Nidhöggar | appos |
| 40 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 39 3 | punct |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 Schlangengrund | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Schlangengrund | det |
| 43 | Schlangengrund | Schlangengrund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 flee | obl |
| 44 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 45 4 | punct |
| 45 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 Schlangengrund | appos |
| 46 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 45 4 | punct |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 bring | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 bring | aux |
| 49 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 flee | ccomp |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 bring | obj |
| 51 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 49 bring | advmod |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 flee | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 flee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | the Giant | a cry of fury | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | a cry of fury | the castle | castle's foundations | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent castle=Theme to foundation=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | seize | past | a cry of fury not said here | thought's battle axe | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mount | past | the Giant not said here | thought's war horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Giant not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | flee a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | horse | the Schlangengrund | to the Nidhöggar | tree rules | |||
| 7 | bring in a quote | future | the Giant = giant | horse | hence property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 8 | cry | fury | nom cry «communication 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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