Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 54

Arrived there, she could at first find none, but directly the cones began to fall in showers from the trees, not striking her, however, but all falling into the basket.

Who acts: Grund, cones · What happens: arrive, find, begin, fall, not strike · To what, where: none, showers, Grund, basket

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 (Grund, cones), 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	Arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Arrived	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Arrived	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 find	advmod
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Arrived	conj
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 find	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
12	directly	directly	ADV	_	15 began	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cones	det
14	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Arrived	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fall	mark
17	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 showers	case
19	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fall	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 trees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fall	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 striking	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 striking	advmod
25	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fall	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 striking	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 however	punct
28	however	however	ADV	_	25 striking	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 falling	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 falling	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 falling	det
32	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Arrived	advcl
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 basket	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 basket	det
35	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 falling	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	could	Grund	none		first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic
3	begin	past	the cones			directly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fall	to-infinitive	the cones not said here		showers	from the trees	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location
5	not strike	gerund	the cones not said here	Grund		however property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument
6	fall	gerund				into the basket result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into basket=Result

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 8, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 54