Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 59
From that time it has been a haunted spot, full of untold horrors, and the wanderer hastens by in fear when darkness is closing in on the mountains.
Who acts: hunter, wanderer, darkness · What happens: haunt, be, hasten, close in · To what, where: haunted spot, 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 (hunter, wanderer, darkness), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spot | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spot | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spot | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 spot | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 8 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 spot | amod |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spot | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 horrors | case |
| 13 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horrors | amod |
| 14 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hastens | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hastens | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wanderer | det |
| 18 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hastens | nsubj |
| 19 | hastens | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fear | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fear | case |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hastens | obl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 closing | advmod |
| 24 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 closing | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 closing | aux |
| 26 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hastens | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 closing | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 mountains | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mountains | det |
| 30 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 closing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | hunter | a haunted spot | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hasten | present | the wanderer | a haunted spot not said here | by fear | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent spot=Theme by fear=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | close in | present · progressive | darkness | the mountains | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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