Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 2
The woods gave place speedily to a bare tract, and the maiden circle grew ever smaller.
Who acts: woods, maiden circle · What happens: give, grow · To what, where: place, bare tract
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 (woods, maiden circle), 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 | 2 woods | det |
| 2 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tract | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tract | det |
| 8 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tract | amod |
| 9 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 circle | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 circle | amod |
| 14 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 smaller | advmod |
| 17 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the woods | place | a bare tract | speedily property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to tract=Recipient | ||
| 2 | grow | past | the maiden circle | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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