Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 21
In former days the spot lay much more desolate than now; the old ways and the delicious wood-paths had not been opened up.
Who acts: former days · What happens: lay, desolate, not open up · To what, where: old ways
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former days), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | appos |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 desolate | advmod |
| 9 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lay | ccomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 now | case |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 desolate | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ways | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ways | amod |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 paths | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 paths | det |
| 18 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 paths | amod |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 paths | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wood | punct |
| 21 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ways | conj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 opened | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 opened | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 opened | aux:pass |
| 25 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lay | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 opened | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | former days | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | former days not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not open up | past · perfect · passive | the old ways and the delicious wood paths | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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