Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 82

He climbed the Göldner, till he had reached the summit of the Spatenberg, where the green-grass carpet and the shade of the old beeches invited him to a short repose.

Who acts: ruin, grass carpet · What happens: climb, reach, invite, shade · To what, where: Göldner, summit, ruin, old beeches

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 (ruin, grass carpet), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Göldner	det
4	Göldner	Göldner	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reached	punct
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reached	aux
9	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 climbed	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 summit	det
11	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Spatenberg	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Spatenberg	det
14	Spatenberg	Spatenberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 summit	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 invited	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 invited	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 carpet	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grass	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 green	punct
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carpet	compound
21	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 invited	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shade	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shade	det
24	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carpet	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 beeches	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beeches	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beeches	amod
28	beeches	beech	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shade	nmod
29	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Spatenberg	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 invited	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 repose	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 repose	det
33	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 repose	amod
34	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 invited	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	climb	past	ruin	the Göldner			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location göldner=Theme
2	reach	past · perfect	ruin	the summit of the Spatenberg			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent summit=Theme
3	invite	past	the grass carpet and the shade of the old beeches		ruin	to a short repose	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	shade			the old beeches			nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 82