Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 105
A long-drawn sigh trembled through the chamber.
What happens: draw, tremble · To what, where: long drawn sigh, chamber
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sigh | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sigh | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sigh | amod |
| 5 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sigh | acl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chamber | det |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trembled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sigh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tremble | participle | a long drawn sigh not said here | the chamber | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chamber=Location |
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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