Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 74
As soon as this ladder was ready, and reached the top of the Hibichenstein, a dwarf stood at each side and lighted the way.
Who acts: ladder, dwarf · What happens: be, reach, stand, light · To what, where: top, side, way
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 (ladder, dwarf), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ready | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 ready | mark |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ladder | det |
| 5 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | cop |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Hibichenstein | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hibichenstein | det |
| 15 | Hibichenstein | Hibichenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dwarf | det |
| 18 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 side | det |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lighted | cc |
| 24 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stood | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lighted | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this ladder | ready, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | this ladder not said here | the top of the Hibichenstein | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | a dwarf | each side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | ||||
| 4 | light | participle | a dwarf not said here | the way | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |
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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