Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 33
But when night came on, and the moon and stars shone in a clear sky, the door of the room opened suddenly in which Adam sat with his prisoners, and a troop of handsome dwarfs, neatly dressed, entered.
Who acts: night, door, Adam · What happens: come on, shine, open, sit, dress, enter · To what, where: moon, clear sky, troop, handsome dwarfs
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, door, Adam), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 opened | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 opened | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shone | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stars | cc |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 moon | conj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sky | amod |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod |
| 23 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 opened | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 sat | obl |
| 27 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sat | nsubj |
| 28 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 opened | advcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 prisoners | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 31 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sat | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 troop | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 troop | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 troop | det |
| 35 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 dwarfs | case |
| 37 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 dwarfs | amod |
| 38 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 troop | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dressed | punct |
| 40 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 41 dressed | advmod |
| 41 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 dwarfs | acl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 entered | punct |
| 43 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 dressed | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shine | participle · passive | the moon and stars | a clear sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the door of the room | a troop of handsome dwarfs | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | sit | past | Adam | with Adam's prisoners; which obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | ||||
| 5 | dress | participle | handsome dwarfs not said here | neatly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | enter | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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