Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 31
With trembling hand the eldest of the two strangers produced the cards; but however falsely he shuffled them the death-card fell to him, and he began to quake, and grew as pale as the chalk of the wall.
Who acts: eldest, hide, death card · What happens: tremble, produce, shuffle, fall, begin, quake · To what, where: cards, hide
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 (eldest, hide, death card), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 hand | amod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 produced | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eldest | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 produced | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 strangers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 strangers | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 strangers | nummod |
| 9 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eldest | obl |
| 10 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cards | det |
| 12 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 produced | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shuffled | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 shuffled | cc |
| 15 | however | however | ADV | _ | 16 falsely | advmod |
| 16 | falsely | falsely | ADV | _ | 18 shuffled | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shuffled | nsubj |
| 18 | shuffled | shuffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 produced | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shuffled | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 card | det |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 card | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 death | punct |
| 23 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shuffled | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 began | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 produced | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 quake | mark |
| 32 | quake | quake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grew | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 grew | cc |
| 35 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 produced | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 pale | case |
| 37 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 grew | obl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 chalk | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 chalk | det |
| 40 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 grew | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 wall | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wall | det |
| 43 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 chalk | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | produce | past | the eldest of the two strangers | the cards | with trembling hand | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Result | |||
| 3 | shuffle | past | hide | cards = card | falsely property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | fall | past | the death card | hide | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | hide | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | quake | to-infinitive | hide not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | grow | past | the eldest of the two strangers not said here | as pale; as the chalk of the wall | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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