Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 106
The company sat grouped here and there under the clumps of old beeches and oaks, the deer cast their shadows in the clear lake, graced with swans, and somewhere in the background the music of a military Capelle floated softly on the air.
Who acts: deer, music · What happens: group, cast, grace, float, shadow · To what, where: company, clumps, shadows, clear lake, background
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, music), 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 | 2 company | det |
| 2 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grouped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grouped | aux:pass |
| 4 | grouped | group | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 grouped | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 there | cc |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 here | conj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 clumps | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clumps | det |
| 10 | clumps | clump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grouped | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beeches | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beeches | amod |
| 13 | beeches | beech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clumps | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 oaks | cc |
| 15 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beeches | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cast | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deer | det |
| 18 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cast | nsubj |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grouped | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shadows | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cast | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 lake | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lake | det |
| 24 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lake | amod |
| 25 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cast | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 graced | punct |
| 27 | graced | grace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 lake | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 swans | case |
| 29 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 graced | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 floated | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 floated | cc |
| 32 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 floated | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 background | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 background | det |
| 35 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 floated | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 music | det |
| 37 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 floated | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Capelle | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 Capelle | det |
| 40 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Capelle | amod |
| 41 | Capelle | Capelle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 music | nmod |
| 42 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grouped | conj |
| 43 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 42 floated | advmod |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 air | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 air | det |
| 46 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 floated | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grouped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | group | past · passive | the company | the clumps of old beeches and oaks; here; there | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cast | present | the deer | deer's shadows | the clear lake | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme in lake=Destination | |||
| 3 | grace | participle | the clear lake not said here | with swans | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with swan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | float | past | the music of a military Capelle | the background | on the air; softly, somewhere property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in background=Source on air=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | shadow | deer | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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