Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 67

The merriment of the guests rang out into the night; in the wildest dance mingled men and women, youths and maidens, and loud music smothered the rolling thunder which could be heard in the distance.

Who acts: merriment, loud music · What happens: ring out, mingle, smother, hear · To what, where: men, wildest dance, rolling thunder

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 (merriment, loud music), 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	2 merriment	det
2	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 guests	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guests	det
5	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 merriment	nmod
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 rang	compound:prt
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 mingled	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 dance	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dance	det
14	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 dance	amod
15	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mingled	obl
16	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rang	parataxis
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mingled	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 women	cc
19	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 youths	punct
21	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 maidens	cc
23	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 smothered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 smothered	cc
26	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 music	amod
27	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smothered	nsubj
28	smothered	smother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mingled	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 thunder	det
30	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thunder	compound
31	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smothered	obj
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 heard	nsubj:pass
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 heard	aux:pass
35	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 thunder	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 distance	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 distance	det
38	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heard	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring out	past	the merriment of the guests			night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mingle	past		men and women and youths and maidens	the wildest dance			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	smother	past	loud music	the rolling thunder				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thunder=Destination
4	hear	could · passive		the rolling thunder			in the distance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 67