Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 34

It rose rugged and steep from the sandy heath to a mighty rock, and formed a row of impassable cliffs, the western summits of which widened into a table-land sufficiently broad for the site of a castle.

Who acts: nature, western summits · What happens: rise, form, widen · To what, where: sandy heath, row, table land

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 (nature, western summits), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rugged	rugged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rose	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 steep	cc
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rugged	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 heath	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heath	det
8	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heath	amod
9	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 rock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rock	det
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rock	amod
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 formed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 formed	cc
16	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 row	det
18	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 formed	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 cliffs	case
20	impassable	impassable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cliffs	amod
21	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 row	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 summits	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 summits	det
24	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 summits	amod
25	summits	summit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 row	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 widened	nsubj
28	widened	widen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 summits	acl:relcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	33 land	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 land	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 land	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 table	punct
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 widened	obl
34	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	35 broad	advmod
35	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 land	amod
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 site	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 site	det
38	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 broad	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 castle	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 castle	det
41	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 site	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	nature		the sandy heath	to a mighty rock; rugged property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from heath=Initial_Location to rock=Destination
2	form	past	nature not said here	a row of impassable cliffs			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location row=Theme
3	widen	past	the western summits		a table land		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 34