Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 98
The last sketch is the empty arbour; the book lies open upside-down on the table, the roses are fallen on the ground.
Who acts: last sketch, book · What happens: be, lie, fall · To what, where: empty arbour, roses, ground
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 (last sketch, book), 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 | 3 sketch | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sketch | amod |
| 3 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arbour | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 arbour | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arbour | det |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 arbour | amod |
| 7 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 lies | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | nsubj |
| 11 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 arbour | parataxis |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 down | amod |
| 13 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 down | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 down | punct |
| 15 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 down | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fallen | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roses | det |
| 21 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fallen | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fallen | aux:pass |
| 23 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lies | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fallen | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the last sketch | the empty arbour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the book | open upside down on the table nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | present · passive | the roses | the ground | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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