Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 12
Meanwhile the storm-clouds had blackened, and a loud clap of thunder rolled over the heads of the parting lovers.
What happens: blacken, roll, clap · To what, where: storm clouds, loud clap, heads, thunder
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: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 blackened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clouds | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 storm | punct |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blackened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blackened | aux |
| 7 | blackened | blacken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rolled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rolled | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 clap | det |
| 11 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clap | amod |
| 12 | clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thunder | case |
| 14 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clap | nmod |
| 15 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 blackened | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 heads | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heads | det |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rolled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lovers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lovers | det |
| 21 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lovers | compound |
| 22 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 heads | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blackened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blacken | past · perfect · passive | the storm clouds | meanwhile property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | roll | participle · passive | a loud clap of thunder | the heads of the parting lovers | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme over head=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | clap | thunder | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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