Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 52

A captured maiden had been imprisoned here, and had sat long in the darkness of constant night, hearing no sound save that of the raging storms that beat against the rocks.

Who acts: raging storms · What happens: capture, imprison, sit, hear, rage, beat · To what, where: captured maiden, darkness, sound, rocks

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 (raging storms), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
2	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 maiden	amod
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 imprisoned	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 imprisoned	aux:pass
6	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 imprisoned	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	aux
11	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 imprisoned	conj
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sat	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 darkness	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 darkness	det
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 night	amod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 darkness	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hearing	punct
20	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sat	advcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 sound	det
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hearing	obj
23	save	save	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 hearing	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 storms	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 storms	det
27	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 storms	amod
28	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 that	nmod
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 beat	nsubj
30	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 storms	acl:relcl
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 rocks	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rocks	det
33	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 beat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imprisoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	capture	participle					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	imprison	past · perfect · passive		a captured maiden	here		vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sit	past · perfect			the darkness of constant night	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in darkness=Location
4	hear	gerund		no sound		save that of the raging storms	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	rage	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	beat	present	the raging storms		the rocks		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 52