Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 103

Not a ray of light pierced the clouds save the fire of the lightning, followed ever more quickly by the deafening claps of thunder; in torrents the clouds now poured their streams on the mountains, the firm rocks seemed to quake to their foundations; it was as if the _Dies Iræ_ were come.

Who acts: pierced clouds, clouds, firm rocks, stream · What happens: pierce, save, follow, pour, seem, quake · To what, where: ray, streams, torrents, light, lightning, thunder

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pierced clouds, clouds, firm rocks, stream), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ray	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ray	det
3	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 light	case
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ray	nmod
6	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 clouds	amod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 save	nsubj
9	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 lightning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lightning	det
14	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 followed	punct
16	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 save	advcl
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 quickly	advmod
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 followed	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 claps	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 claps	det
22	deafening	deafening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 claps	compound
23	claps	clap	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 followed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 thunder	case
25	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 claps	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 poured	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 torrents	case
28	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 poured	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 clouds	det
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 poured	nsubj
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 poured	advmod
32	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 save	parataxis
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 streams	nmod:poss
34	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 poured	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 mountains	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mountains	det
37	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 poured	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 seemed	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 rocks	det
40	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rocks	amod
41	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 seemed	nsubj
42	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 poured	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 quake	mark
44	quake	quake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 seemed	xcomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 foundations	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 foundations	nmod:poss
47	foundations	foundation	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 quake	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 come	punct
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 come	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 come	cop
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 come	mark
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 come	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Dies	det
54	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Dies	compound
55	Dies	Dies	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 come	nsubj
56	Iræ	Iræ	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Dies	flat
57	_	_	PUNCT	_	55 Dies	punct
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 come	aux
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 save	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pierce	participle						vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	save	present	the pierced clouds	a ray of light			the fire of the lightning obj	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	follow	participle	the pierced clouds not said here			ever	by the deafening claps of thunder; quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by clap=Location
4	pour	past	the clouds	clouds's streams	torrents	now	on the mountains	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient
5	seem	past	the firm rocks					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	quake	to-infinitive	the firm rocks not said here				to clouds's foundations	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	stream				the _ Dies nsubj; come property	tree rules
8	ray			light				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
9	fire			the lightning				nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient
10	clap			thunder				nom clap «event 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 5, sentence 103

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 103