Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 109

A tumbling stone struck him so violently on the heel that he was always obliged to wear slippers after, and from that day he never recovered his spirits.

Who acts: tumbling stone, roaring · What happens: tumble, strike, oblige, wear, not recover · To what, where: roaring, slippers, spirits

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 (tumbling stone, roaring), 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	3 stone	det
2	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 violently	advmod
7	violently	violently	ADV	_	4 struck	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 heel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heel	det
10	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 obliged	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 obliged	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 obliged	aux:pass
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 obliged	advmod
15	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 struck	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wear	mark
17	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 obliged	xcomp
18	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wear	obj
19	after	after	ADV	_	17 wear	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 recovered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 recovered	cc
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 recovered	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 recovered	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 recovered	advmod
27	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 spirits	nmod:poss
29	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 recovered	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	strike	past	a tumbling stone	roaring		on the heel; violently property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on heel=Patient
3	oblige	past · passive		roaring		always property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	wear	to-infinitive		slippers		after property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme
5	not recover	past	roaring	roaring's spirits	day		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=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 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 109