Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 86

Soon the beating of heavy wings was heard, and a hoarse croaking, and a pair of huge primeval ravens flew down, and sat, one on the north, one on the south window, and cried:

Who acts: hoarse croaking · What happens: hear, fly down, sit, cry, beat · To what, where: beating, one, north, heavy wings

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 (hoarse croaking), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beating	det
3	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wings	case
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wings	amod
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beating	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 croaking	det
12	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 croaking	amod
13	croaking	croaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flew	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pair	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pair	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pair	det
17	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 croaking	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 ravens	case
19	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ravens	amod
20	primeval	primeval	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ravens	compound
21	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pair	nmod
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	parataxis
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 flew	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flew	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 sat	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 north	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 north	det
31	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 one	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 one	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 window	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 window	det
36	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 window	amod
37	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 one	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 cried	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cried	cc
40	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sat	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		the beating of heavy wings		soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	fly down	past	a hoarse croaking				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	a hoarse croaking not said here	one	the north		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on north=Location
4	cry speech: express	past	a hoarse croaking not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beat			heavy wings			nom beating «act transitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 86