Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 47
But once inside, they threw baskets and tubs to the winds, seized their arms, drove back the surprised guard, and at the same time a party in ambush rushed over the drawbridge.
Who acts: gates · What happens: throw, seize, drive back, rush · To what, where: baskets, winds, arms, surprised guard, party, drawbridge
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 (gates), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 threw | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 inside | advmod |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 threw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 threw | nsubj |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 threw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tubs | cc |
| 9 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 baskets | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 winds | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 winds | det |
| 12 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 threw | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seized | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 drove | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 guard | det |
| 21 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 guard | amod |
| 22 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rushed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rushed | cc |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rushed | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 party | det |
| 30 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 ambush | case |
| 32 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 party | nmod |
| 33 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 threw | conj |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 drawbridge | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 drawbridge | det |
| 36 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rushed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | gates = gate | baskets and tubs | the winds | inside property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to wind=Destination | ||
| 2 | seize | past | gates = gate not said here | gates's arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive back | past | gates = gate not said here | the surprised guard | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme guard=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | rush | participle · passive | a party in ambush | the drawbridge | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme over drawbridge=Trajectory |
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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