Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 99
The terrible howlings begin afresh, the hand trembles and vanishes with the Gold-Krone, soon all grows fearfully still, drops of blood rise to the surface, then a whole stream--the brave Crusader never returns.
Who acts: terrible howlings, hand, all, brave Crusader · What happens: begin, tremble, vanish, grow, not return · To what, where: drops
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 (terrible howlings, hand, all, brave Crusader), 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 | 3 howlings | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 howlings | amod |
| 3 | howlings | howling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begin | nsubj |
| 4 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 begin | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trembles | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trembles | nsubj |
| 9 | trembles | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 vanishes | cc |
| 11 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 trembles | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Krone | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Krone | det |
| 14 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Krone | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gold | punct |
| 16 | Krone | Krone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 vanishes | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grows | punct |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 grows | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 grows | nsubj |
| 20 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | parataxis |
| 21 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 22 still | advmod |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 grows | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drops | punct |
| 24 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grows | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rise | case |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rise | compound |
| 27 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drops | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 surface | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 surface | det |
| 30 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rise | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stream | punct |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 stream | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 stream | det |
| 34 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stream | amod |
| 35 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grows | obl |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 Crusader | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Crusader | det |
| 38 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Crusader | amod |
| 39 | Crusader | crusader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stream | appos |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 returns | advmod |
| 41 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 Crusader | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the terrible howlings | afresh property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tremble | present | the hand | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vanish | present | the hand not said here | with the Gold Krone | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | all | drops of blood rise to the surface | still | a whole stream obl; soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 5 | not return | present | the brave Crusader not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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