Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 108

Benumbed with terror, he fled from the chamber, that fell in behind him, and through the passages, that seemed to him suddenly falling into ruins.

Who acts: roaring, chamber, that · What happens: benumb, flee, fall in, seem, fall · To what, where: chamber, roaring, passages, ruins

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 (roaring, chamber, that), 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	Benumbed	benumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fled	advcl
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 terror	case
3	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Benumbed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Benumbed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fled	nsubj
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 chamber	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chamber	det
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chamber	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 passages	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passages	det
20	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seemed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fled	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	obl
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	27 falling	advmod
27	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 seemed	xcomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 ruins	case
29	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 falling	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	benumb	participle	roaring not said here			with terror	tree rules
2	flee	past	roaring		the chamber		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location
3	fall in	past	the chamber			behind roaring	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
4	seem	past	that	roaring	the passages		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	fall	gerund	that not said here			into ruins result; suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ruin=Result

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 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 108