Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 76
Before they could recover from their astonishment, the dogs began again to scratch the ground in the same spot, and soon a second chest came to view, in which the shepherds found golden goblets, candlesticks, and other sacred vessels of immense value.
Who acts: Shepherds, dogs, second chest · What happens: recover, begin, scratch, come, view, find · To what, where: astonishment, ground, same spot, golden goblets
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 (Shepherds, dogs, second chest), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 recover | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recover | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 recover | aux |
| 4 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 astonishment | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 7 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recover | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dogs | det |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recover | parataxis |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 began | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 scratch | mark |
| 14 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scratch | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spot | amod |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scratch | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 came | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 chest | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 chest | amod |
| 26 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 view | mark |
| 29 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 came | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 found | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 found | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shepherds | det |
| 34 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 found | nsubj |
| 35 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | conj |
| 36 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 goblets | amod |
| 37 | goblets | goblet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 found | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 candlesticks | punct |
| 39 | candlesticks | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 goblets | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 vessels | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 vessels | cc |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 vessels | amod |
| 43 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 vessels | amod |
| 44 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 found | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 value | case |
| 46 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 value | amod |
| 47 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 vessels | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | could | Shepherds = shepherd | Shepherds's astonishment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from astonishment=Source | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the dogs | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | scratch | to-infinitive | the dogs not said here | the ground | the same spot | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ground=Theme in spot=Destination | |||
| 4 | come | past | a second chest | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | view | to-infinitive | a second chest not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | find | past | the shepherds | golden goblets and candlesticks | other sacred vessels of immense value obl; which obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Topic | |||
| 7 | astonish | Shepherds = shepherd | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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