Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 39

Is it the mysterious Devil's Hole in an ancient vault, with the date 1090, near which house spectres, whose employment it is ever to fill this four feet deep and wide hole with stones; or the opening in one of the largest rock walls, which proclaims a conquest of the castle; or the ruinated chapel, with its tiny Gothic door and two windows, and the aumbry still in the wall at the right on entering, the over-grown moat to the east and south, the arched entrance, the many half-broken flights of stone steps?

Who acts: many, largest rock walls, house spectres · What happens: be, proclaim, ruinat, arch, break, employ · To what, where: conquest

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 (many, largest rock walls, house spectres), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 date	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 date	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Devil	det
4	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Devil	amod
5	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 date	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Devil	case
7	Hole	Hole	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 date	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 vault	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vault	det
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 vault	amod
11	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Hole	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 date	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 date	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 date	det
15	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	1090	1090	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 date	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spectres	punct
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	21 spectres	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spectres	compound
21	spectres	spectre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 date	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 employment	punct
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 employment	nmod:poss
24	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spectres	appos
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fill	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fill	cop
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 fill	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fill	mark
29	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 employment	acl:relcl
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 feet	det
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 feet	nummod
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fill	obj
33	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hole	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wide	cc
35	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 deep	conj
36	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fill	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 stones	case
38	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hole	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 opening	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 opening	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 opening	det
42	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 date	appos
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 one	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 opening	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 walls	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 walls	det
47	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 walls	amod
48	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 walls	compound
49	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 one	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 proclaims	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 proclaims	nsubj
52	proclaims	proclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 walls	acl:relcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 conquest	det
54	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 proclaims	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 castle	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 castle	det
57	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 conquest	nmod
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 chapel	punct
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 chapel	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 chapel	det
61	ruinated	ruinat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 chapel	amod
62	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 proclaims	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 door	punct
64	with	with	ADP	_	68 door	case
65	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 door	nmod:poss
66	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 door	amod
67	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 door	amod
68	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 chapel	nmod
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 windows	cc
70	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	71 windows	nummod
71	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 door	conj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 wall	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 wall	cc
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 aumbry	det
75	aumbry	aumbry	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 wall	nsubj
76	still	still	ADV	_	79 wall	advmod
77	in	in	ADP	_	79 wall	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 wall	det
79	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 opening	nmod
80	at	at	ADP	_	82 right	case
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 right	det
82	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 wall	nmod
83	on	on	ADP	_	84 entering	case
84	entering	entering	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 right	nmod
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	88 moat	punct
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	88 moat	det
87	over-grown	over-grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 moat	amod
88	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 right	conj
89	to	to	ADP	_	91 east	case
90	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	91 east	det
91	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 moat	nmod
92	and	and	CCONJ	_	93 south	cc
93	south	south	ADV	_	91 east	conj
94	,	,	PUNCT	_	97 entrance	punct
95	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	97 entrance	det
96	arched	arch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	97 entrance	amod
97	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 moat	conj
98	,	,	PUNCT	_	104 flights	punct
99	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	104 flights	det
100	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	104 flights	amod
101	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	103 broken	compound
102	-	-	PUNCT	_	101 half	punct
103	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	104 flights	amod
104	flights	flight	NOUN	Number=Plur	82 right	nmod
105	of	of	ADP	_	107 steps	case
106	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	107 steps	compound
107	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	104 flights	nmod
108	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 date	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many			with the mysterious Devil's date; the mysterious Devil nmod:poss; Hole in a ancient vault nsubj; which house spectres appos; the opening in one of the largest rock walls in the wall the aumbry at the right on entering the many broken flights of stone steps and the over-grown moat to the east and the arched entrance appos	tree rules
2	is	present	many		ever	this four feet obj; deep hole obj; fill property	tree rules
3	proclaim	present	the largest rock walls	a conquest of the castle		the ruinated chapel with many's tiny Gothic door and two windows obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Theme
4	ruinat	participle					tree rules
5	arch	participle					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	break	participle				half compound	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	employ		which house spectres				nom employment «state transitive»: poss=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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 39