Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 15
Cracking, it sprang open, and a blood-red splendour shone forth in the great space which they now entered.
Who acts: two, cushions · What happens: crack, spring, shine, enter · To what, where: red splendour, great space
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 (two, cushions), 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 | Cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sprang | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cracking | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sprang | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 splendour | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 splendour | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 splendour | det |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 red | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 blood | punct |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 splendour | amod |
| 12 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 splendour | acl |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 shone | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 space | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 space | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 space | amod |
| 18 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 entered | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 entered | advmod |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 space | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | gerund | two not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spring | past | two | a red splendour | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | shine | participle | a red splendour not said here | the great space | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location | |||
| 4 | enter | past | cushions = cushion | the great space | now | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Destination |
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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