Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 132

They laughed to themselves, and held the whole story for a dream, save one brother, who found something very remarkable in it, and when he had a leisure hour he climbed the rock where the Treseburg had stood, observed the direction of the walls and the moat, and removed the moss, underbrush, and thorns.

Who acts: wife, one brother, Graumännchen, Treseburg · What happens: laugh, hold, save, find, have, climb · To what, where: wife, whole story, one brother, something, rock, direction

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 (wife, one brother, Graumännchen, Treseburg), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 themselves	case
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 laughed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 held	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 held	cc
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 dream	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dream	det
13	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 save	punct
15	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 held	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 brother	nummod
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 save	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 brother	acl:relcl
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 found	obj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 remarkable	advmod
23	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 something	amod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remarkable	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 had	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hour	det
32	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hour	compound
33	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 climbed	nsubj
35	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hour	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rock	det
37	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 climbed	obj
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 stood	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Treseburg	det
40	Treseburg	Treseburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 stood	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 stood	aux
42	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 rock	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 observed	punct
44	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 had	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 direction	det
46	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 observed	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 walls	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 walls	det
49	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 direction	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 moat	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 moat	det
52	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 walls	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 removed	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 removed	cc
55	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	parataxis
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 moss	det
57	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 removed	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 underbrush	punct
59	underbrush	underbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 moss	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 thorns	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 thorns	cc
62	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 removed	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	wife		wife			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to themselves=Recipient
2	hold	past	wife not said here	the whole story			for a dream	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
3	save	infinitive	wife not said here	one brother				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
4	find	past	one brother	something				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
5	have	past	Graumännchen			hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	climb	past	Graumännchen	the rock				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme
7	stand	past · perfect	the Treseburg					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	observe	past	Graumännchen not said here	the direction of the walls and the moat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent direction=Topic
9	remove	past		the moss and underbrush			thorns obl	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moss=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 132