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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 24

Then the mountain opened, and the child came into a great hall, where many noble steeds neighed and tossed their proud heads, and the viands were served on gold and silver.

Who acts: mountain, child, many noble steeds · What happens: open, come, neigh, toss, serve · To what, where: great hall, proud heads, viands, gold

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 (mountain, child, many noble steeds), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctccdetnsubjconjcasedetamodoblpunctadvmodamodamodnsubjconjccconjnmod:possamodobjpunctccdetnsubj:passaux:passconjcaseoblccconjpunctrootThenADVtheDETmountainNOUNopenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETchildNOUNcameVERBintoADPaDETgreatADJhallNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVmanyADJnobleADJsteedsNOUNneighedVERBandCCONJtossedVERBtheirPRONproudADJheadsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETviandsNOUNwereAUXservedVERBonADPgoldNOUNandCCONJsilverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 openedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 mountaindet
3mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing4 openednsubj
4openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_9 camepunct
6andandCCONJ_9 camecc
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 childdet
8childchildNOUNNumber=Sing9 camensubj
9camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 openedconj
10intointoADP_13 hallcase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 halldet
12greatgreatADJDegree=Pos13 hallamod
13hallhallNOUNNumber=Sing9 cameobl
14,,PUNCT_19 neighedpunct
15wherewhereADVPronType=Rel19 neighedadvmod
16manymanyADJDegree=Pos18 steedsamod
17noblenobleADJDegree=Pos18 steedsamod
18steedssteedNOUNNumber=Plur19 neighednsubj
19neighedneighVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 cameconj
20andandCCONJ_21 tossedcc
21tossedtossVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 neighedconj
22theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 headsnmod:poss
23proudproudADJDegree=Pos24 headsamod
24headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur21 tossedobj
25,,PUNCT_30 servedpunct
26andandCCONJ_30 servedcc
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 viandsdet
28viandsviandNOUNNumber=Plur30 servednsubj:pass
29werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 servedaux:pass
30servedserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 openedconj
31ononADP_32 goldcase
32goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing30 servedobl
33andandCCONJ_34 silvercc
34silversilverNOUNNumber=Sing32 goldconj
35..PUNCT_4 openedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1openpastthe mountainthenvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2comepastthe childa great hallvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
3neighpastmany noble steedsvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4tosspastmany noble steeds not said heresteeds's proud headsvn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5servepast · passivethe viandsgold and silvervn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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