Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 81
Let thy stay there be short and cautious, for the ruins are haunted by night.
Who acts: you, thy · What happens: let, stay, be, haunt · To what, where: thy, ruins
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 (you, thy), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stay | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 short | cop |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cautious | cc |
| 8 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 short | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 haunted | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 haunted | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ruins | det |
| 12 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 haunted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 haunted | aux:pass |
| 14 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stay | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 haunted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | thy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | thy not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | thy not said here | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | thy not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | haunt | present · passive | the ruins | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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