Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 26
Who that has visited the romantic Harz has not climbed the lordly sandstone mountain, the Reinstein, wondered at its vast chambers hewn in solid rock, and gazed in silent rapture on a prospect more beautiful than that from the Brocken?
Who acts: vast · What happens: visit, not climb, wonder, chamber, gaze · To what, where: romantic Harz, solid rock · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (vast), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 visited | aux |
| 4 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Harz | det |
| 6 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Harz | amod |
| 7 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 climbed | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 climbed | advmod |
| 10 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 visited | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 12 | lordly | lordly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountain | amod |
| 13 | sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mountain | compound |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Reinstein | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Reinstein | det |
| 17 | Reinstein | Reinstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mountain | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wondered | punct |
| 19 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 visited | conj |
| 20 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 23 chambers | mark |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 vast | nmod:poss |
| 22 | vast | vast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chambers | nsubj |
| 23 | chambers | chamber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wondered | ccomp |
| 24 | hewn | hewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chambers | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 rock | case |
| 26 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rock | amod |
| 27 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chambers | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gazed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gazed | cc |
| 30 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wondered | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 rapture | case |
| 32 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rapture | amod |
| 33 | rapture | rapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gazed | obl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 prospect | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 prospect | det |
| 36 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gazed | obl |
| 37 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 beautiful | advmod |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gazed | parataxis |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 that | case |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 beautiful | obl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 Brocken | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Brocken | det |
| 43 | Brocken | Brocken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 beautiful | obl |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present · perfect · passive | Who nsubj:pass; that nsubj:pass | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | not climb | present · perfect · passive | the romantic Harz | the lordly sandstone mountain obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | chamber | present | Harz's vast | solid rock | hewn property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | gaze | past | on a prospect; in silent rapture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in rapture=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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