Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 91
And hardly were these words out of his mouth when the Haarburg was raised on unseen hands from its foundations high in the air, so high that the Countess was seized with giddiness, and awoke in terror.
Who acts: words · What happens: be, raise, seize, awake · To what, where: mouth, Haarburg, unseen hands, Countess, terror
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 (words), 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 | _ | 9 mouth | cc |
| 2 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 mouth | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mouth | cop |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mouth | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 raised | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Haarburg | det |
| 12 | Haarburg | Haarburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | aux:pass |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mouth | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hands | amod |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 raised | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 foundations | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 foundations | nmod:poss |
| 20 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hands | nmod |
| 21 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 foundations | amod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 high | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 high | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 high | advmod |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 raised | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 seized | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Countess | det |
| 30 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seized | aux:pass |
| 32 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 high | advcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 giddiness | case |
| 34 | giddiness | giddiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seized | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 awoke | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 awoke | cc |
| 37 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seized | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 terror | case |
| 39 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 awoke | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mouth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this words | spirit's mouth | spirit nmod:poss; hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raise | past · passive | the Haarburg | unseen hands from Haarburg's foundations | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on hand=Destination | ||||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | the Countess | with giddiness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | awake | past | terror | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location |
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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