Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 3
"The sun has set, the evening brightness fades, The gloom increases in the forest glades; And a deep sadness all my soul pervades: I am alone.
Who acts: evening brightness, gloom, deep sadness · What happens: set, fade, increase, pervade · To what, where: sun, forest glades
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 (evening brightness, gloom, deep sadness), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fades | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brightness | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brightness | compound |
| 9 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fades | nsubj |
| 10 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 increases | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gloom | det |
| 13 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 increases | nsubj |
| 14 | increases | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fades | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 glades | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 glades | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 glades | compound |
| 18 | glades | glade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 increases | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 pervades | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pervades | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sadness | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sadness | amod |
| 23 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pervades | nsubj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 soul | det:predet |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 soul | nmod:poss |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sadness | nmod |
| 27 | pervades | pervade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fades | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 am | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 am | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pervades | conj |
| 31 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 30 am | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fades | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | fade in a quote | present | the evening brightness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | increase in a quote | present | the gloom | the forest glades | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pervade in a quote | present | a deep sadness my soul | tree rules |
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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