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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 37

The earth groaned and thundered, the forests trembled, the birds and beasts fled in terror, long streaks of fire swept through the grim darkness, and the snorting of the steeds was like the roar of the Northwind.

Who acts: earth, forests, birds, long streaks, snorting, steeds · What happens: groan, thunder, tremble, flee, sweep, be · To what, where: terror, grim darkness

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 (earth, forests, birds, long streaks), 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

detnsubjccconjpunctdetnsubjparataxispunctdetnsubjccconjconjcaseoblpunctamodnsubjcasenmodacl:relclcasedetamodoblpunctccdetnsubjcasedetnmodcopcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootTheDETearthNOUNgroanedVERBandCCONJthunderedVERB,PUNCTtheDETforestsNOUNtrembledVERB,PUNCTtheDETbirdsNOUNandCCONJbeastsNOUNfledVERBinADPterrorNOUN,PUNCTlongADJstreaksNOUNofADPfireNOUNsweptVERBthroughADPtheDETgrimADJdarknessNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETsnortingNOUNofADPtheDETsteedsNOUNwasAUXlikeADPtheDETroarNOUNofADPtheDETNorthwindPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 earthdet
2earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing3 groanednsubj
3groanedgroanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4andandCCONJ_5 thunderedcc
5thunderedthunderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 groanedconj
6,,PUNCT_9 trembledpunct
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 forestsdet
8forestsforestNOUNNumber=Plur9 tremblednsubj
9trembledtrembleVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 groanedparataxis
10,,PUNCT_15 fledpunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 birdsdet
12birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur15 flednsubj
13andandCCONJ_14 beastscc
14beastsbeastNOUNNumber=Plur12 birdsconj
15fledfleeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 trembledconj
16ininADP_17 terrorcase
17terrorterrorNOUNNumber=Sing15 fledobl
18,,PUNCT_20 streakspunct
19longlongADJDegree=Pos20 streaksamod
20streaksstreakNOUNNumber=Plur23 sweptnsubj
21ofofADP_22 firecase
22firefireNOUNNumber=Sing20 streaksnmod
23sweptsweepVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 terroracl:relcl
24throughthroughADP_27 darknesscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 darknessdet
26grimgrimADJDegree=Pos27 darknessamod
27darknessdarknessNOUNNumber=Sing23 sweptobl
28,,PUNCT_38 roarpunct
29andandCCONJ_38 roarcc
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 snortingdet
31snortingsnortingNOUNNumber=Sing38 roarnsubj
32ofofADP_34 steedscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 steedsdet
34steedssteedNOUNNumber=Plur31 snortingnmod
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 roarcop
36likelikeADP_38 roarcase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 roardet
38roarroarNOUNNumber=Sing3 groanedobl
39ofofADP_41 Northwindcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 Northwinddet
41NorthwindNorthwindPROPNNumber=Sing38 roarnmod
42..PUNCT_3 groanedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1groanpastthe earthvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2thunderpastthe earth not said herevn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3tremblepastthe forestsvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4fleepastthe birds and beaststerrorvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5sweeppastlong streaks of fireterror not said herethe grim darknessvn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent terror=Theme through darkness=Trajectory
6ispastthe snorting of the steedslike the roar; of the Northwindtree rules
7snortthe steedsnom snorting «act 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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