Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 106

He threw the too-late-brought money, at the same time crossing himself, into the trunk, which immediately closed, and with the dead maiden disappeared.

Who acts: gloom, same time, dead maiden · What happens: throw, bring, cross, close, disappear · To what, where: late brought money, trunk, gloom

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: who acts (gloom, same time, dead maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 money	det
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 money	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 money	amod
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
15	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 time	acl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 crossing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trunk	punct
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 trunk	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trunk	det
20	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 closed	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 closed	nsubj:pass
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	24 closed	advmod
24	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 trunk	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 disappeared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 disappeared	cc
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 disappeared	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 maiden	det
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 maiden	amod
30	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disappeared	nsubj
31	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	gloom	the late brought money	time	into the trunk result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer money=Theme into trunk=Result
2	bring	participle					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	cross	gerund	the same time not said here	gloom			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	close	participle · passive		the trunk		immediately property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	disappear	past	the dead maiden				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 106