Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 134
One clear moonlight night he mounted with hook and shovel to the ruins; there, where once the tower had stood, he measured three times seven paces to the west from the tower, and the same distance from the gate southward.
Who acts: Graumännchen · What happens: mount, stand, measure · To what, where: ruins, seven paces, tower
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 night | nummod |
| 2 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 3 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | compound |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mounted | nsubj |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hook | case |
| 8 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shovel | cc |
| 10 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hook | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ruins | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ruins | det |
| 13 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mounted | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 there | punct |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 mounted | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 stood | advmod |
| 18 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 20 tower | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tower | det |
| 20 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stood | aux |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 there | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 measured | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 measured | nsubj |
| 25 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mounted | conj |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 times | nummod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 paces | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 paces | nummod |
| 29 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 measured | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 west | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 west | det |
| 32 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 measured | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 tower | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tower | det |
| 35 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 measured | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 southward | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 southward | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 distance | det |
| 39 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 distance | amod |
| 40 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 southward | nsubj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 gate | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 gate | det |
| 43 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 distance | nmod |
| 44 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 6 mounted | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Graumännchen | the ruins | night | with hook and shovel; southward property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ruin=Location | ||
| 2 | stand | past · perfect | Graumännchen not said here | once the tower | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | measure | past | Graumännchen | seven paces three times | the tower | to the west | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pace=Value |
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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