Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 90
The day arrived, the Bode was bridged with ice, hundreds of anxious spectators lined the rocks above, the black flag floated from the Lauenburg and the Regenstein.
Who acts: day, hundreds · What happens: arrive, bridge, line, float · To what, where: Bode, rocks, black flag, Lauenburg
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 (day, hundreds), 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 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bridged | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bode | det |
| 6 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bridged | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bridged | aux:pass |
| 8 | bridged | bridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arrived | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 ice | case |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hundreds | punct |
| 12 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lined | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spectators | case |
| 14 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spectators | amod |
| 15 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hundreds | nmod |
| 16 | lined | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rocks | det |
| 18 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lined | obj |
| 19 | above | above | ADV | _ | 18 rocks | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flag | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flag | det |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flag | amod |
| 23 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rocks | conj |
| 24 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 flag | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Lauenburg | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Lauenburg | det |
| 27 | Lauenburg | Lauenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 floated | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Regenstein | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Regenstein | det |
| 30 | Regenstein | Regenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Lauenburg | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bridge | past · passive | the Bode | with ice | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | line | past | hundreds of anxious spectators | the rocks and the black flag | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Destination | ||||
| 4 | float | participle | the black flag not said here | the Lauenburg and the Regenstein | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lauenburg=Trajectory |
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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