Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 42
The besiegers had lain long before the stronghold in vain, had stormed the walls and the stronger rocks without success, and finally, evidently convinced that the fortress was impregnable, had raised the siege.
Who acts: fortress · What happens: lie, storm, be, raise · To what, where: besiegers, walls, siege
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 (fortress), 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 | 2 besiegers | det |
| 2 | besiegers | besieger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lain | aux |
| 4 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 lain | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 stronghold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stronghold | det |
| 8 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lain | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stronghold | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stormed | punct |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stormed | aux |
| 13 | stormed | storm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 lain | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stormed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rocks | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rocks | det |
| 18 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 rocks | amod |
| 19 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 walls | conj |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 success | case |
| 21 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stormed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 convinced | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 convinced | cc |
| 24 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 27 convinced | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 convinced | punct |
| 26 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 27 convinced | advmod |
| 27 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lain | parataxis |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 impregnable | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fortress | det |
| 30 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 impregnable | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 impregnable | cop |
| 32 | impregnable | impregnable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 raised | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 impregnable | punct |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 raised | aux |
| 35 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 convinced | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 siege | det |
| 37 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 raised | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · perfect · passive | the besiegers | before the stronghold in vain | long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | storm | past · perfect | the walls and the stronger rocks | without success | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the fortress | impregnable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | raise | past · perfect | the siege | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=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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