Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 54

The noble animal stood breathless on the brink of the abyss which is called after him the Stag Cliff, and started back in fear and trembling from the black gulf.

Who acts: noble animal · What happens: stand, call, start back, tremble · To what, where: brink, abyss, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (noble animal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	breathless	breathless	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stood	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 brink	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brink	det
8	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 abyss	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 abyss	det
11	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brink	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 called	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 abyss	acl:relcl
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cliff	det
18	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Cliff	compound
19	Cliff	Cliff	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 started	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 started	cc
22	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 started	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 fear	case
25	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 started	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 trembling	cc
27	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fear	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 gulf	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gulf	det
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gulf	amod
31	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trembling	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the noble animal		the brink of the abyss		breathless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brink=Location
2	call	present · passive		the abyss		after stag	the Stag Cliff xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	start back	past	the noble animal not said here		fear			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	tremble	gerund	the noble animal not said here				from the black gulf	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from gulf=Stimulus

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 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 54