Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 68
They went through it, and saw themselves surrounded by a dim twilight, since the openings in the arch ceiling were insufficient to light the interior, and the slender arched windows were so overgrown with ivy and other plants that they stood in a green night.
Who acts: curiosity, openings, slender, other plants · What happens: go, see, surround, be, light, arch · To what, where: side, curiosity, interior, windows, slender
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 (curiosity, openings, slender, other plants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 twilight | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 twilight | det |
| 12 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 twilight | amod |
| 13 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 insufficient | punct |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 insufficient | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 openings | det |
| 17 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 insufficient | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 ceiling | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ceiling | det |
| 20 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ceiling | compound |
| 21 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 openings | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 insufficient | cop |
| 23 | insufficient | insufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 light | mark |
| 25 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 insufficient | csubj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 interior | det |
| 27 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 light | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 overgrown | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 overgrown | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 slender | det |
| 31 | slender | slender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 overgrown | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 slender | acl |
| 33 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 arched | obj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 overgrown | aux:pass |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 overgrown | advmod |
| 36 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 ivy | case |
| 38 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 overgrown | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 plants | cc |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 plants | amod |
| 41 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 ivy | conj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 stood | nsubj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 stood | nsubj |
| 44 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 plants | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 night | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 night | det |
| 47 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 night | amod |
| 48 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stood | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | curiosity | side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | curiosity | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | surround | participle | curiosity not said here | a dim twilight obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the openings in the arch ceiling | insufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | light | to-infinitive | the interior | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interior=Product | |||||
| 6 | arch | participle | the slender not said here | windows | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||||
| 7 | overgrow | past · passive | the slender | with ivy and other plants | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | stand | past | other plants | night | curiosity nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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