Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 30
Great burning eyes rolled like wheels of flaming fire in his awful face, a shaggy-haired hide clothed the spirit of the bottomless pit, and the fearful claws were extended to seize his prey.
Who acts: wheels, Great burning eyes, fearful claws · What happens: burn, roll, flame, clothe, be, seize · To what, where: Great burning eyes, fire, awful face, spirit, prey
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 (wheels, Great burning eyes, fearful claws), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 2 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clothed | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 eyes | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 wheels | case |
| 6 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 flaming | mark |
| 8 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wheels | acl |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flaming | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flaming | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hide | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hide | det |
| 16 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hide | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaggy | punct |
| 18 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hide | amod |
| 19 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clothed | nsubj |
| 20 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spirit | det |
| 22 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clothed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pit | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pit | det |
| 25 | bottomless | bottomless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pit | amod |
| 26 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spirit | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 extended | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 extended | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 claws | det |
| 30 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 claws | amod |
| 31 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 extended | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 extended | cop |
| 33 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 clothed | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 seize | mark |
| 35 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 extended | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 prey | nmod:poss |
| 37 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seize | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 clothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | roll | participle | Great burning eyes not said here | like wheels | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flame | gerund | wheels not said here | fire | child's awful face | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||
| 4 | clothe | past | Great burning eyes | the spirit of the bottomless pit | a shaggy haired hide nsubj | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | past | the fearful claws | extended property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | seize | to-infinitive | the fearful claws not said here | child's prey | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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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