Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 63
On the spot now covered by the Tanzteich once stood a stately Schloss with lofty walls and battlements.
What happens: cover, stand · To what, where: spot, stately Schloss
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 spot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 covered | advmod |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spot | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Tanzteich | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tanzteich | det |
| 8 | Tanzteich | Tanzteich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obl |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 stood | advmod |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Schloss | det |
| 12 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Schloss | amod |
| 13 | Schloss | schloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 walls | case |
| 15 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 walls | amod |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Schloss | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 battlements | cc |
| 18 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walls | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | the spot not said here | now | by the Tanzteich | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a stately Schloss | the spot | with lofty walls and battlements; once property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent schloss=Theme on spot=Destination |
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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