Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 80
And he seized him, dragged him to a window, and threw him, amid the laughter of the guests, into the depths below the castle.
Who acts: darkness · What happens: seize, drag, throw · To what, where: heart, darkness, window, laughter, depths
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 seized | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragged | punct |
| 6 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dragged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 amid | punct |
| 16 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 laughter | det |
| 18 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 guests | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 guests | det |
| 21 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 laughter | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 depths | punct |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 depths | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 depths | det |
| 25 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 threw | obl |
| 26 | below | below | ADP | _ | 28 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 depths | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | darkness | heart | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | darkness not said here | darkness | a window | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to window=Destination | |||
| 3 | throw | past | darkness not said here | the laughter of the guests | darkness | the depths below the castle | amid obl | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination laughter=Theme |
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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