Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 101
When he opened them he found himself in a spacious hall, its stone walls adorned with armour and arms, and on a massive oak table lay also arms, partly broken, partly covered with fresh blood.
Who acts: Graumännchen · What happens: open, find, adorn, lay, break, cover · To what, where: eyes, Graumännchen, spacious hall, stone walls, arms, massive oak table
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graumännchen), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 10 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hall | amod |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walls | punct |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 walls | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walls | compound |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hall | conj |
| 16 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 walls | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 armour | case |
| 18 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 adorned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arms | cc |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 armour | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lay | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lay | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 25 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 table | amod |
| 26 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 table | compound |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lay | obl |
| 28 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | parataxis |
| 29 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 lay | advmod |
| 30 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lay | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 broken | punct |
| 32 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 33 broken | advmod |
| 33 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 lay | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 covered | punct |
| 35 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 36 covered | advmod |
| 36 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 broken | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 blood | case |
| 38 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 blood | amod |
| 39 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 covered | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Graumännchen | eyes = eye | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Graumännchen | Graumännchen | a spacious hall and ancestor's stone walls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | adorn | participle | ancestor's stone walls not said here | with armour and arms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with armour=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | arms | a massive oak table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme on table=Destination | ||||
| 5 | break | participle | partly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | cover | participle | with fresh blood; partly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme |
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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