Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 33
Long the fields near the three trees thrived above all others, and at night three maiden forms could be seen following the plough in the moonlight.
Who acts: fields · What happens: thrive, see, follow · To what, where: others, three maiden forms, plough, moonlight
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 (fields), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 thrived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fields | det |
| 3 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thrived | nsubj |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 trees | nummod |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fields | nmod |
| 8 | thrived | thrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 others | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 others | det |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thrived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seen | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obl |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 forms | nummod |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forms | amod |
| 18 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thrived | conj |
| 22 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 seen | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plough | det |
| 24 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 following | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 moonlight | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moonlight | det |
| 27 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plough | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrive | participle | the fields near the three trees | all others | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above other=Location | |||
| 2 | see | could · passive | three maiden forms | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | the plough | the moonlight | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plough=Theme in moonlight=Trajectory |
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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