Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 7
With firmness the three went directly forward toward a second cave, which was large and lofty, and lighted with a magical splendour.
Who acts: three, second cave · What happens: go, be, light · To what, where: second cave
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 (three, second cave), 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 | _ | 2 firmness | case |
| 2 | firmness | firmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 three | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 7 forward | advmod |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 cave | amod |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 large | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 large | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 large | cop |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cave | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lofty | cc |
| 17 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 large | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lighted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lighted | cc |
| 20 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 splendour | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 splendour | det |
| 23 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 splendour | amod |
| 24 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lighted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the three | a second cave | with firmness; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward cave=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | a second cave | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a second cave not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | light | participle | the three not said here | with a magical splendour | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with splendour=Material |
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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