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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 58

He sprang from the stone, seized his cane, and gave the youth such a powerful blow on his head that he sank bleeding, with glassy eyes, in the grass.

Who acts: Stolberg · What happens: spring, seize, give, sink, bleed · To what, where: stone, cane, youth, glassy eyes, grass

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), 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

nsubjcasedetoblpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctccconjdetobjdet:predetdetamodobjcasenmod:possnmodmarknsubjadvclxcomppunctcaseamodobjpunctcasedetoblpunctrootHePRONsprangVERBfromADPtheDETstoneNOUN,PUNCTseizedVERBhisPRONcaneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgaveVERBtheDETyouthNOUNsuchDETaDETpowerfulADJblowNOUNonADPhisPRONheadNOUNthatSCONJhePRONsankVERBbleedingVERB,PUNCTwithADPglassyADJeyesNOUN,PUNCTinADPtheDETgrassNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 sprangnsubj
2sprangspringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3fromfromADP_5 stonecase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 stonedet
5stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing2 sprangobl
6,,PUNCT_7 seizedpunct
7seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sprangconj
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 canenmod:poss
9canecaneNOUNNumber=Sing7 seizedobj
10,,PUNCT_12 gavepunct
11andandCCONJ_12 gavecc
12gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sprangconj
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 youthdet
14youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobj
15suchsuchDETPronType=Ind18 blowdet:predet
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 blowdet
17powerfulpowerfulADJDegree=Pos18 blowamod
18blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobj
19ononADP_21 headcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 headnmod:poss
21headheadNOUNNumber=Sing18 blownmod
22thatthatSCONJ_24 sankmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 sanknsubj
24sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 gaveadvcl
25bleedingbleedVERBVerbForm=Ger24 sankxcomp
26,,PUNCT_29 eyespunct
27withwithADP_29 eyescase
28glassyglassyADJDegree=Pos29 eyesamod
29eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur25 bleedingobj
30,,PUNCT_33 grasspunct
31ininADP_33 grasscase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 grassdet
33grassgrassNOUNNumber=Sing25 bleedingobl
34..PUNCT_2 sprangpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1springpastStolbergthe stonevn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stone=Trajectory
2seizepastStolberg not said hereStolberg's canevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme
3givepastStolberg not said herethe youthsuch powerful blow objvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient blow=Theme
4sinkpastStolbergtree rules
5bleedgerundStolberg not said hereglassy eyesthe grassvn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source

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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