Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 22

The terrified Abbess had scarcely sprung back into the convent when a stream of fire, after a terrific thunder-clap, dashed the building to ruins, out of which arose a pillar of dust and flame.

Who acts: terrified Abbess, stream · What happens: spring back, dash, arise · To what, where: convent, building, pillar

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 (terrified Abbess, stream), 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	3 Abbess	det
2	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Abbess	amod
3	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sprung	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprung	aux
5	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	6 sprung	advmod
6	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 sprung	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 convent	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 convent	det
10	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprung	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 dashed	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dashed	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 fire	case
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stream	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 clap	punct
17	after	after	ADP	_	22 clap	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 clap	det
19	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clap	amod
20	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clap	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 thunder	punct
22	clap	clap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stream	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stream	punct
24	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprung	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 building	det
26	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dashed	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 ruins	case
28	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dashed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 arose	punct
30	out	out	ADP	_	32 which	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 arose	nsubj
33	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprung	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pillar	det
35	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 arose	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 dust	case
37	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pillar	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 flame	cc
39	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dust	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sprung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring back	past · perfect	the terrified Abbess		the convent	scarcely property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into convent=Destination
2	dash	past	a stream of fire and a terrific thunder clap	the building		to ruins result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent building=Patient to ruin=Result
3	arise	past		a pillar of dust and flame		which nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pillar=Theme

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 22