Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 115

The door of the hall was broken in with heavy blows, and with loud shouts a troop of men, dripping with blood, rushed in and threw themselves in rage upon him, crying: "We have thee at last, thou foul knave! thou who hast robbed and murdered so many.

Who acts: We, thou · What happens: break in, shout, drip, rush in, throw, cry · To what, where: door, troop, hall, rage, thee, last · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, thou), 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 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 door	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	aux:pass
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 broken	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 blows	case
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blows	amod
11	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 broken	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shouts	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shouts	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 loud	case
15	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shouts	obl
16	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 troop	det
18	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shouts	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 men	case
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 troop	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dripping	punct
22	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 shouts	advcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 blood	case
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dripping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rushed	punct
26	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 broken	conj
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 rushed	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 threw	cc
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	conj
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 threw	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 rage	case
32	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crying	punct
36	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 threw	conj
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
39	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	parataxis
41	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 have	obj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 last	case
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 have	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 knave	punct
45	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 knave	nsubj
46	foul	foul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 knave	amod
47	knave	knave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	obl
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 broken	punct
49	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	52 robbed	nsubj:pass
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 robbed	nsubj:pass
51	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 robbed	aux:pass
52	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 broken	parataxis
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 murdered	cc
54	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 robbed	conj
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 many	advmod
56	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 murdered	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break in	past · passive		the door of the hall		with heavy blows	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	present		a troop of men		with loud	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troop=Topic
3	drip	gerund				with blood	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme
4	rush in	participle					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw	past		hall	rage	upon door	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in rage=Destination
6	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have in a quote	present	We	thee	last		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
8	knave in a quote		thou				tree rules
9	rob in a quote	present · passive		thou		who nsubj:pass	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
10	murder in a quote	participle		many			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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 6, sentence 115