Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 93
But who shall describe her amazement when she saw the town of Wernigerode directly beneath, and on closer observation found that the old tower Haarburg had been moved in the night to the mountain where her husband had so earnestly desired to have it.
Who acts: Countess, husband · What happens: describe, see, find, move, have, desire · To what, where: amazement, town, closer observation, old tower, mountain, tower · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Countess, husband), 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 | _ | 4 describe | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 describe | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 describe | aux |
| 4 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 6 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describe | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 describe | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Wernigerode | case |
| 13 | Wernigerode | Wernigerode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 town | nmod |
| 14 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 15 beneath | advmod |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 observation | case |
| 19 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 observation | amod |
| 20 | observation | observation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 describe | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 moved | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tower | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tower | amod |
| 25 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 moved | nsubj |
| 26 | Haarburg | Haarburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tower | appos |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 moved | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 moved | aux:pass |
| 29 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 found | ccomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 moved | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 mountain | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mountain | det |
| 35 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 moved | obl |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 had | advmod |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 husband | nmod:poss |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 desired | advmod |
| 41 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 42 desired | advmod |
| 42 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 had | xcomp |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 have | mark |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 desired | xcomp |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 have | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | shall | Countess's amazement | who nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent amazement=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Countess | the town of Wernigerode | beneath property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | find | past | closer observation | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | move | past · perfect · passive | the old tower | the mountain | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | have | past | Countess's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | desire | participle | Countess's husband not said here | earnestly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Countess's husband not said here | tower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 8 | amaze | Countess | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: 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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