Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 92

The report of a Goldfeuer[1] in the Sieberthal soon spread, and many saw the flame, but no one was bold enough to attempt to gain the treasure.

Who acts: report, many, one · What happens: spread, see, be, attempt, gain, report · To what, where: flame, treasure, Goldfeuer

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 (report, many, one), 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 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spread	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Goldfeuer	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Goldfeuer	det
5	Goldfeuer	Goldfeuer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 report	nmod
6	[	[	PUNCT	_	7 1	punct
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Goldfeuer	flat
8	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 1	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Sieberthal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sieberthal	det
11	Sieberthal	Sieberthal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Goldfeuer	nmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 spread	advmod
13	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flame	det
19	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bold	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 bold	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bold	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bold	cop
25	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 saw	conj
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 bold	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 attempt	mark
28	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 bold	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 gain	mark
30	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 attempt	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 treasure	det
32	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gain	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the report of a Goldfeuer in the Sieberthal		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	many	the flame		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flame=Stimulus
3	is	past	no one		bold, enough property	tree rules
4	attempt	to-infinitive	no one not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	gain not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the treasure		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
6	report			a Goldfeuer in the Sieberthal		nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 92