Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 74
He mounted the stone stairway, and reached the ball-room, where knights and ladies whirled in the dance regardless of the storm.
Who acts: darkness · What happens: mount, reach, whirl · To what, where: stone stairway, ball room, knights, dance
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stairway | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stairway | compound |
| 5 | stairway | stairway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reached | cc |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ball | punct |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whirled | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 whirled | advmod |
| 15 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 whirled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ladies | cc |
| 17 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 knights | conj |
| 18 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 room | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dance | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dance | det |
| 21 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whirled | obl |
| 22 | regardless | regardless | ADV | _ | 25 storm | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 storm | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 storm | det |
| 25 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whirled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | darkness | the stone stairway | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stairway=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | darkness not said here | the ball room | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whirl | participle · passive | knights and ladies | the dance | of the storm | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme in dance=Source of storm=Trajectory |
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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