Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 102
But as he reached the steps of the altar, all the four horse-shoes fell off, and the horse and his rider sank to the ground.
Who acts: Three, four horse shoes, horse · What happens: reach, fall off, sink, step · To what, where: steps, altar
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three, four horse shoes, horse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steps | det |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 altar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 altar | det |
| 9 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steps | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 shoes | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shoes | det |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 shoes | nummod |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoes | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 16 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 fell | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sank | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sank | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sank | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rider | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 rider | nmod:poss |
| 25 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 horse | conj |
| 26 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 ground | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ground | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sank | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Three | the steps of the altar | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | all four horse shoes | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sink | past | the horse and Three's rider | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | step | the altar | nom step «act 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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