Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 8

If they had taken advantage of Adam's surprise, they might have made their escape; but fear and terror rooted them to the spot till he had recovered himself, seized them with a firm hand, and asked in a stern voice who they were, and where they came from.

Who acts: hands, fear, stranger, Adam · What happens: take, make, root, recover, seize, ask · To what, where: advantage, escape, hands, stranger, stern voice

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 (hands, fear, stranger, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 taken	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 surprise	case
7	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 surprise	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Adam	case
9	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advantage	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	aux
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 taken	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 escape	nmod:poss
16	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 rooted	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 fear	cc
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rooted	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 terror	cc
21	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fear	conj
22	rooted	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rooted	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 spot	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spot	det
26	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rooted	obl
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 recovered	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 recovered	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 recovered	aux
30	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 rooted	advcl
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 recovered	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seized	punct
33	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rooted	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seized	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 hand	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hand	det
37	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hand	amod
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seized	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 asked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 asked	cc
41	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rooted	parataxis
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 voice	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 voice	det
44	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 voice	amod
45	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 asked	obl
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 voice	conj
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 who	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 who	cop
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 came	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 came	cc
51	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	53 came	advmod
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 came	nsubj
53	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 asked	conj
54	from	from	ADP	_	53 came	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	hands = hand	advantage of Adam's surprise			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
2	make	might · perfect	hands = hand	hands's escape			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product
3	root	past	fear and terror	hands = hand		to the spot	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	recover	past · perfect	stranger	stranger			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	seize	past	fear and terror not said here	hands = hand		with a firm hand	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past			a stern voice		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	hands = hand				tree rules
8	come	past	hands = hand				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	surprise		Adam				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
10	escape		hands = hand				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 6, sentence 8