Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 78
Then they entered through a great arched door into the mountain, and the King conducted him to a large room, where stood chairs and a table.
Who acts: ladders, King · What happens: enter, arch, conduct, stand · To what, where: great arched door, mountain, large room
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 (ladders, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 7 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 conducted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 conducted | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 conducted | nsubj |
| 16 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 conducted | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | amod |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 conducted | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chairs | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 stood | advmod |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 chairs | amod |
| 25 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 room | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 table | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | ladders = ladder | a great arched door | then | into the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location into mountain=Destination | ||
| 2 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | conduct | past | the King | mountain | a large room and stood chairs and a table | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 4 | stand | participle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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