Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 101
Just as they had raised the vessel to the surface they heard wheels.
Who acts: masses · What happens: raise, hear · To what, where: masses, wheels
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masses), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 raised | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 raised | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raised | aux |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 surface | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 surface | det |
| 10 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 surface | acl:relcl |
| 13 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past · perfect · passive | masses = mass | to the surface result; the vessel obj | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient vessel=Extent to surface=Result | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | masses = mass | wheels | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wheel=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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