Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 47
He was present as the owner of the estate Winatahusen in Thale, had removed the wonder-stone, on which the good fortune of the estate hangs, and had seen how sixteen horses and hundreds of men had only with difficulty moved it; while the heavens had grown dark, and the storm threatened to destroy the buildings, and only misfortune followed misfortune, till the stone was restored to the ancient convent estate.
Who acts: doch, good fortune, difficulty, heavens, storm, misfortune · What happens: be, remove, hang, see, move, grow · To what, where: wonder stone, sixteen horses, fortune, buildings, misfortune, stone
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 (doch, good fortune, difficulty, heavens), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 present | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 present | cop |
| 3 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 owner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 owner | det |
| 6 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 present | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 estate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 estate | det |
| 9 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owner | nmod |
| 10 | Winatahusen | Winatahusen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 estate | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Thale | case |
| 12 | Thale | Thale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Winatahusen | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 removed | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 removed | aux |
| 15 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 present | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 17 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stone | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wonder | punct |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 removed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hangs | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 hangs | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fortune | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fortune | amod |
| 25 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hangs | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 estate | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 estate | det |
| 28 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fortune | nmod |
| 29 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 present | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seen | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 seen | cc |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 hangs | advcl |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 sixteen | advmod |
| 35 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 horses | nummod |
| 36 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 seen | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hundreds | cc |
| 38 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 horses | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 men | case |
| 40 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hundreds | nmod |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 moved | aux |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 difficulty | advmod |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 difficulty | case |
| 44 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 moved | nsubj |
| 45 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 horses | acl:relcl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 moved | obj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 grown | punct |
| 48 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 52 grown | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 heavens | det |
| 50 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 grown | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 grown | aux |
| 52 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 hangs | conj |
| 53 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 grown | xcomp |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 threatened | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 threatened | cc |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 storm | det |
| 57 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 threatened | nsubj |
| 58 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 hangs | advcl |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 60 destroy | mark |
| 60 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 threatened | xcomp |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 buildings | det |
| 62 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 destroy | obj |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 followed | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 followed | cc |
| 65 | only | only | ADV | _ | 66 misfortune | advmod |
| 66 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 followed | nsubj |
| 67 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 threatened | conj |
| 68 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 followed | obj |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 restored | punct |
| 70 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 74 restored | mark |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 72 stone | det |
| 72 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 73 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 74 restored | aux:pass |
| 74 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 67 followed | parataxis |
| 75 | to | to | ADP | _ | 79 estate | case |
| 76 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 79 estate | det |
| 77 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 79 estate | amod |
| 78 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 estate | compound |
| 79 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 restored | obl |
| 80 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | doch | as the owner of the estate; present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remove | past · perfect | doch not said here | the wonder stone | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang | present | the good fortune of the estate | which obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | the good fortune of the estate not said here | sixteen horses and hundreds of men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | move | past | difficulty | fortune | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | past · perfect | the heavens | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | threaten | participle | the storm | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | the storm not said here | the buildings | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Patient | ||||
| 9 | follow | past | misfortune | misfortune | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme | ||||
| 10 | restore | past · passive | the stone | the ancient convent estate | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to estate=Recipient |
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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