Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 109
In an instant blue flame and cauldron had vanished!
What happens: vanish · To what, where: instant blue flame
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 flame | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flame | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flame | amod |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flame | amod |
| 5 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vanished | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cauldron | cc |
| 7 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flame | conj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 vanished | aux |
| 9 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect | a instant blue flame and cauldron | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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