Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 24
Once, more than a hundred years ago, on St. John's Day, a number of children from Steckelnberg were scattered in the thickets around the ruins gathering flowers and making wreaths and garlands, when suddenly one of the boys uttered a cry of astonishment.
Who acts: ruins, one, astonishment · What happens: scatter, gather, make, utter, cry · To what, where: Day, thickets, flowers, wreaths, cry
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 (ruins, one, astonishment), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 scattered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 23 scattered | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Day | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Day | case |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 John | nmod:desc |
| 12 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 John | case |
| 14 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 number | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Day | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 number | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Steckelnberg | case |
| 21 | Steckelnberg | Steckelnberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 children | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 scattered | aux:pass |
| 23 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 thickets | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thickets | det |
| 26 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 scattered | obl |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 29 ruins | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ruins | det |
| 29 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thickets | nmod |
| 30 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 ruins | acl |
| 31 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gathering | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 making | cc |
| 33 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 gathering | conj |
| 34 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 making | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 garlands | cc |
| 36 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wreaths | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 uttered | punct |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 uttered | advmod |
| 39 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 40 one | advmod |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 uttered | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 boys | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 boys | det |
| 43 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 one | nmod |
| 44 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 scattered | conj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 cry | det |
| 46 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 uttered | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 astonishment | case |
| 48 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cry | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · passive | John St.'s Day | the thickets around the ruins | ago, once property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in thicket=Destination | |||
| 2 | gather | gerund | the ruins not said here | flowers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the ruins not said here | wreaths and garlands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wreath=Product | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past | one of the boys | a cry of astonishment | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 5 | cry | astonishment | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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