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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 55

And louder and nearer thundered the wild call of the hunters, the hunting horns came fearfully near, and as the hounds would seize their prey, the stag, in deathly terror, made the leap into the frightful deeps.

Who acts: hunting horns, hounds · What happens: thunder, come, seize, make, call · To what, where: wild call, prey, leap, frightful deeps, hunters · 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 (hunting horns, hounds), 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

ccadvmodccadvmoddetamodobjcasedetnmodpunctdetcompoundnsubjconjadvmodadvmodpunctccmarkdetnsubjauxconjnmod:possobjpunctdetconjpunctcaseamodparataxispunctconjdetobjcasedetamodoblpunctrootAndCCONJlouderADJandCCONJnearerADVthunderedVERBtheDETwildADJcallNOUNofADPtheDEThuntersNOUN,PUNCTtheDEThuntingNOUNhornsNOUNcameVERBfearfullyADVnearADV,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJtheDEThoundsNOUNwouldAUXseizeVERBtheirPRONpreyNOUN,PUNCTtheDETstagNOUN,PUNCTinADPdeathlyADJterrorNOUN,PUNCTmadeVERBtheDETleapNOUNintoADPtheDETfrightfulADJdeepsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_5 thunderedcc
2louderloudADJDegree=Cmp5 thunderedadvmod
3andandCCONJ_4 nearercc
4nearernearADVDegree=Cmp5 thunderedadvmod
5thunderedthunderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 calldet
7wildwildADJDegree=Pos8 callamod
8callcallNOUNNumber=Sing5 thunderedobj
9ofofADP_11 hunterscase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 huntersdet
11huntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur8 callnmod
12,,PUNCT_16 camepunct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 hornsdet
14huntinghuntingNOUNNumber=Sing15 hornscompound
15hornshornNOUNNumber=Plur16 camensubj
16camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 callconj
17fearfullyfearfullyADV_18 nearadvmod
18nearnearADV_16 cameadvmod
19,,PUNCT_25 seizepunct
20andandCCONJ_25 seizecc
21asasSCONJ_25 seizemark
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 houndsdet
23houndshoundNOUNNumber=Plur25 seizensubj
24wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 seizeaux
25seizeseizeVERBVerbForm=Inf5 thunderedconj
26theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 preynmod:poss
27preypreyNOUNNumber=Sing25 seizeobj
28,,PUNCT_30 stagpunct
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 stagdet
30stagstagNOUNNumber=Sing27 preyconj
31,,PUNCT_34 terrorpunct
32ininADP_34 terrorcase
33deathlydeathlyADJDegree=Pos34 terroramod
34terrorterrorNOUNNumber=Sing25 seizeparataxis
35,,PUNCT_36 madepunct
36mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 thunderedconj
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 leapdet
38leapleapNOUNNumber=Sing36 madeobj
39intointoADP_42 deepscase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 deepsdet
41frightfulfrightfulADJDegree=Pos42 deepsamod
42deepsdeepNOUNNumber=Plur36 madeobl
43..PUNCT_5 thunderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1thunderpastthe wild call of the huntersnear propertyvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent call=Theme
2comepastthe hunting hornsnear propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seizewouldthe houndshounds's prey and the stagdeathly terror parataxisvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
4makepastthe leapthe frightful deepsvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent leap=Material into deep=Product
5callthe huntersnom call «communication 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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