Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 86

A green meadow valley lay before the house, on which fat, comfortable-looking cows were grazing; well-scoured milk-pails hung on the garden fence, fruit-trees were trained on the house-walls, a powerful dog lay basking in the glowing sunshine before the door; from the well-populated barn-yard one heard an animated conversation among the feathered tribes, where a peacock was chairman, and made short emphatic speeches, and a turkey-cock filled the office of crier; in short, all bore the stamp of wealth and comfort.

Who acts: green meadow valley, fat, scoured milk pails, powerful dog, populated yard one, peacock · What happens: lay, look, graze, scour, hang, train · To what, where: scoured milk pails, house, garden fence, fruit, house walls, glowing sunshine

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 (green meadow valley, fat, scoured milk pails, powerful dog), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 valley	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 valley	amod
3	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 valley	compound
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fat	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 fat	case
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 fat	det
12	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grazing	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cows	punct
14	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looking	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 comfortable	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cows	amod
17	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grazing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grazing	aux
19	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lay	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 pails	punct
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 scoured	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 well	punct
23	scoured	scour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pails	amod
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pails	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 milk	punct
26	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obl
27	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pails	acl
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 fence	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fence	det
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fence	compound
31	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hung	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 trained	punct
33	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 trained	nsubj:pass
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 fruit	punct
35	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 trained	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 trained	aux:pass
37	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pails	acl
38	on	on	ADP	_	42 walls	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 walls	det
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 walls	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 house	punct
42	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 trained	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 lay	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 dog	det
45	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 dog	amod
46	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lay	nsubj
47	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 walls	conj
48	basking	bask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 lay	xcomp
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 sunshine	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sunshine	det
51	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 sunshine	amod
52	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 basking	obl
53	before	before	ADP	_	55 door	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 door	det
55	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 basking	obl
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 heard	punct
57	from	from	ADP	_	65 one	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 one	det
59	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	61 populated	advmod
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 well	punct
61	populated	populate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 one	amod
62	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 yard	compound
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 barn	punct
64	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 one	compound
65	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 heard	nsubj
66	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	parataxis
67	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 conversation	det
68	animated	animated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 conversation	amod
69	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 heard	obj
70	among	among	ADP	_	73 tribes	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 tribes	det
72	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 tribes	amod
73	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 heard	obl
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 chairman	punct
75	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	79 chairman	advmod
76	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 peacock	det
77	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 chairman	nsubj
78	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	79 chairman	cop
79	chairman	chairman	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 tribes	conj
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 made	punct
81	and	and	CCONJ	_	82 made	cc
82	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 heard	conj
83	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	85 speeches	amod
84	emphatic	emphatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	85 speeches	amod
85	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	82 made	obj
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	92 filled	punct
87	and	and	CCONJ	_	92 filled	cc
88	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	91 cock	det
89	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 cock	compound
90	-	-	PUNCT	_	89 turkey	punct
91	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	92 filled	nsubj
92	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 heard	conj
93	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	94 office	det
94	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	92 filled	obj
95	of	of	ADP	_	96 crier	case
96	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	94 office	nmod
97	;	;	PUNCT	_	102 bore	punct
98	in	in	ADP	_	99 short	case
99	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	102 bore	obl
100	,	,	PUNCT	_	99 short	punct
101	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	102 bore	advmod
102	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 heard	conj
103	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	104 stamp	det
104	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	102 bore	obj
105	of	of	ADP	_	106 wealth	case
106	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	104 stamp	nmod
107	and	and	CCONJ	_	108 comfort	cc
108	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	104 stamp	conj
109	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a green meadow valley	scoured milk pails	the house			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before house=Destination
2	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	graze	past · progressive	which fat				looking cows nsubj	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scour	participle					well property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	hang	participle		scoured milk pails not said here	the garden fence			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fence=Location
6	train	past · passive	scoured milk pails not said here	fruit	the house walls		trees nsubj:pass	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	lie	past	a powerful dog					tree rules
8	bask	gerund	a powerful dog not said here		the glowing sunshine	before the door		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	glow	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	populate	participle					well property	tree rules
11	hear	past	the populated yard one	a animated conversation			among the feathered tribes and chairman	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus
12	is a	past	a peacock	chairman				tree rules
13	make	past	the populated yard one not said here	short emphatic speeches				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
14	fill	past	a turkey cock	the office of crier				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent office=Patient
15	bear	past	the populated yard one not said here	the stamp of wealth and comfort	short			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stamp=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 86

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 86