Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 97
The great plain north of the Harz mountains was not always the smiling, fruitful tract of land the eye now beholds.
Who acts: great plain north, eye · What happens: not be, behold · To what, where: smiling, land
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 (great plain north, eye), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 north | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 north | amod |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 north | amod |
| 4 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smiling | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 7 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | compound |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 north | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 smiling | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 smiling | advmod |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 smiling | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 smiling | det |
| 13 | smiling | smiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tract | punct |
| 15 | fruitful | fruitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tract | amod |
| 16 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smiling | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tract | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eye | det |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beholds | nsubj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 beholds | advmod |
| 22 | beholds | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 land | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 smiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the great plain north of the Harz mountains | the smiling and fruitful tract of land | fruitful tract of land conj; always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | behold | present | the eye | land not said here | now | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
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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