Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 19
At this moment the Abbess with her nuns came forward, when lo, a flash of lightning lit up the darkness; the lovers stood in a sea of dazzling light; it seemed to them they saw heaven open.
Who acts: Abbess, flash, lovers, sea, it, lightning · What happens: come forward, lit up, stand, dazzle, seem, see · To what, where: darkness, sea, light, lovers, heaven
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 (Abbess, flash, lovers, sea), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Abbess | det |
| 5 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 nuns | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nuns | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Abbess | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flash | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 flash | advmod |
| 13 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 16 flash | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lo | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flash | det |
| 16 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lightning | case |
| 18 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flash | nmod |
| 19 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 flash | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 lit | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 darkness | det |
| 22 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 stood | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lovers | det |
| 25 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stood | nsubj |
| 26 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sea | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 dazzling | mark |
| 31 | dazzling | dazzle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 sea | acl |
| 32 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dazzling | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 seemed | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seemed | nsubj |
| 35 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stood | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seemed | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | nsubj |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seemed | xcomp |
| 40 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 saw | obj |
| 41 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 saw | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | the Abbess with Abbess's nuns | moment | a flash of lightning conj; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lit up | participle | a flash of lightning not said here | the darkness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the lovers | a sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location | ||||
| 4 | dazzle | gerund | a sea not said here | light | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus light=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | it | lovers = lover | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | see | past | lovers = lover | heaven | open property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heaven=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | flash | lightning | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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