Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 115
All three entered the opening, and came soon to a large room containing a well-served meal on the table, and chairs placed ready.
Who acts: three, large room · What happens: enter, come, contain, serve, place · To what, where: opening, large room, served meal, table, chairs
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 (three, large room), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 opening | det |
| 5 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 room | amod |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 room | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 meal | det |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 served | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 well | punct |
| 18 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 meal | amod |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 containing | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 table | det |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meal | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chairs | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 chairs | cc |
| 25 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 entered | obl |
| 26 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 chairs | acl |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 placed | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | all three | the opening | chairs obl | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opening=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | all three not said here | a large room | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | contain | gerund | a large room not said here | a served meal | the table | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme | |||
| 4 | serve | participle | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | place | participle | chairs not said here | ready property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent |
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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