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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 42

She spurs on her noble steed till she reaches the Hexentanzplatz,[5] when suddenly he Stops, rears, and plunges, and refuses to advance.

Who acts: mountain, Harz · What happens: spur, reach, stop, rear, refuse, not advance · To what, where: noble steed, Hexentanzplatz, plunges

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 (mountain, Harz), 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

nsubjcasenmod:possamodoblmarknsubjadvcldetobjpunctpunctappospunctadvmodadvmodnsubjconjpunctconjpunctccoblpunctccconjmarkxcomppunctrootShePRONspursVERBonADPherPRONnobleADJsteedNOUNtillSCONJshePRONreachesVERBtheDETHexentanzplatzPROPN,PUNCT[PUNCT5NUM]PUNCTwhenADVsuddenlyADVhePRONStopsVERB,PUNCTrearsVERB,PUNCTandCCONJplungesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJrefusesVERBtoPARTadvanceVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 spursnsubj
2spursspurVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ononADP_6 steedcase
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 steednmod:poss
5noblenobleADJDegree=Pos6 steedamod
6steedsteedNOUNNumber=Sing2 spursobl
7tilltillSCONJ_9 reachesmark
8sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 reachesnsubj
9reachesreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 spursadvcl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Hexentanzplatzdet
11HexentanzplatzHexentanzplatzPROPNNumber=Sing9 reachesobj
12,,PUNCT_14 5punct
13[[PUNCT_14 5punct
1455NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card11 Hexentanzplatzappos
15]]PUNCT_14 5punct
16whenwhenADVPronType=Int17 suddenlyadvmod
17suddenlysuddenlyADV_19 Stopsadvmod
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 Stopsnsubj
19StopsstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 reachesconj
20,,PUNCT_21 rearspunct
21rearsrearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 spursconj
22,,PUNCT_24 plungespunct
23andandCCONJ_24 plungescc
24plungesplungeNOUNNumber=Plur21 rearsobl
25,,PUNCT_27 refusespunct
26andandCCONJ_27 refusescc
27refusesrefuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 spursconj
28totoPART_29 advancemark
29advanceadvanceVERBVerbForm=Inf27 refusesxcomp
30..PUNCT_2 spurspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spurpresentmountainmountain's noble steedvn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2reachpresentmountainthe Hexentanzplatzvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hexentanzplatz=Theme
3stoppresentHarzsuddenly propertyvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4rearpresentmountain not said hereplungesvn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5refusepresentmountain not said herevn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6not advanceto-infinitivemountain not said herevn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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