Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 62
The news spread through all the plains of Germany, from the North Sea to the Alps, and knights and princes flocked to the banks of the Bodethal to learn the extent of the danger in such an attempt, but no man was even able to approach the brink of the fearful chasm.
Who acts: news, knights, man · What happens: spread, flock, learn, be, approach, extend · To what, where: plains, extent, attempt, brink, danger
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 (news, knights, man), 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 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 plains | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 plains | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plains | det |
| 7 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Germany | case |
| 9 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 plains | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sea | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sea | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sea | compound |
| 14 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Alps | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Alps | det |
| 17 | Alps | alp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flocked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flocked | cc |
| 20 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flocked | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 princes | cc |
| 22 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 knights | conj |
| 23 | flocked | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 banks | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 banks | det |
| 26 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flocked | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Bodethal | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Bodethal | det |
| 29 | Bodethal | Bodethal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 banks | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 learn | mark |
| 31 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 flocked | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 extent | det |
| 33 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 learn | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 danger | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 danger | det |
| 36 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 extent | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 attempt | case |
| 38 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 attempt | det:predet |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 attempt | det |
| 40 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 learn | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 able | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 able | cc |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 man | det |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 able | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 able | cop |
| 46 | even | even | ADV | _ | 47 able | advmod |
| 47 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spread | parataxis |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 approach | mark |
| 49 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 able | xcomp |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 brink | det |
| 51 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 approach | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 chasm | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 chasm | det |
| 54 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 chasm | amod |
| 55 | chasm | chasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 brink | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the news | all plains of Germany | from the North Sea; to the Alps | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through plain=Location | |||
| 2 | flock | past | knights and princes | to the banks of the Bodethal | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | knights and princes not said here | the extent of the danger | such attempt | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extent=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | past | no man | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | approach | to-infinitive | no man not said here | the brink of the fearful chasm | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brink=Theme | ||||
| 6 | extend | the danger | nom extent «state 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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