Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 34
And now begins the fearful race.
What happens: begin · To what, where: fearful race
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 begins | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 begins | advmod |
| 3 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 race | det |
| 5 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 race | amod |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begins | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the fearful race | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
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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