Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 25
The others ran to him, and lo! there stood on the edge of the tower walls, then rising only the height of a man from the _débris_, a wonderful flower, the like of which the children had never seen before.
Who acts: others · What happens: run, stand, rise, not see · To what, where: wonderful flower, John, edge, height, children
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 (others), 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 | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 8 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 11 stood | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stood | advmod |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 edge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 edge | det |
| 14 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walls | compound |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 edge | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rising | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 rising | advmod |
| 21 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stood | advcl |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 height | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 height | det |
| 24 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rising | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 height | nmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 débris | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 débris | det |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 débris | punct |
| 31 | débris | débris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 man | nmod |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 flower | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 flower | det |
| 35 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 flower | amod |
| 36 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 seen | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 seen | det |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 seen | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 children | det |
| 43 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 seen | aux |
| 45 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 seen | advmod |
| 46 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 47 | before | before | ADV | _ | 46 seen | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the others | a wonderful flower | John | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the others not said here | the edge of the tower walls; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the others not said here | the height of a man from the débris | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect · passive | the children | which obl; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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