Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 51

A snow-white stag flew with the rapidity of the wind over the mountains, pursued by the hunters on foot and on horseback, and surrounded by the barking pack of hounds.

Who acts: white stag · What happens: fly, pursue, surround, bark · To what, where: mountains

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 (white stag), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stag	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stag	amod
5	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 rapidity	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rapidity	det
9	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 wind	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rapidity	nmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pursued	punct
17	pursued	pursue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 mountains	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 hunters	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hunters	det
20	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pursued	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 foot	case
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hunters	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 horseback	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 horseback	case
25	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hunters	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 surrounded	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 surrounded	cc
28	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flew	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 pack	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pack	det
31	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 pack	amod
32	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 surrounded	obl:agent
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 hounds	case
34	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pack	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a white stag		the mountains	with the rapidity of the wind	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location
2	pursue	participle		the mountains not said here		by the hunters on foot and horseback	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by hunter=Trajectory
3	surround	participle	a white stag not said here			the barking pack of hounds obl:agent	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	bark	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 51