Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 53
After long speculation he discovered the cause, sprang up joyfully, worked day and night, and soon the bell stood without a flaw before the youth's delighted eyes.
Who acts: Stolberg, bell · What happens: discover, sprang up, work, stand · To what, where: cause, delighted eyes
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 (Stolberg, bell), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 speculation | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speculation | amod |
| 3 | speculation | speculation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 discovered | nsubj |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cause | det |
| 7 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprang | punct |
| 9 | sprang | sprang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 discovered | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 sprang | compound:prt |
| 11 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 9 sprang | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 worked | punct |
| 13 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discovered | conj |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 night | cc |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 stood | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bell | det |
| 21 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discovered | conj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 flaw | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 flaw | det |
| 25 | flaw | flaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 eyes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 youth | det |
| 28 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 youth | case |
| 30 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 eyes | amod |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stood | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Stolberg | the cause | after long speculation | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | |||
| 2 | sprang up | infinitive | Stolberg not said here | joyfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | past | Stolberg not said here | day | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the bell | the youth's delighted eyes | without a flaw; soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eye=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/53/