Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 103
The four huge horse-shoes were nailed to the church door, where they remained for centuries, and the awful tale was oft related to trembling listeners.
Who acts: steps, awful tale · What happens: nail, remain, be, tremble · To what, where: four huge horse shoes, listeners
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 (steps, awful tale), 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 | 6 shoes | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 shoes | nummod |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shoes | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoes | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 horse | punct |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nailed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nailed | aux:pass |
| 8 | nailed | nail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | compound |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nailed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remained | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 remained | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remained | nsubj |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 door | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 centuries | case |
| 18 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 remained | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 related | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 related | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tale | det |
| 22 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tale | amod |
| 23 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 related | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 related | cop |
| 25 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 related | amod |
| 26 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nailed | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 28 trembling | mark |
| 28 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 related | advcl |
| 29 | listeners | listener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 trembling | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nail | past · passive | the four huge horse shoes | to the church door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to door=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | steps = step | century | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the awful tale | related property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | the awful tale not said here | listeners | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location listener=Theme |
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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