Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 15
Fischersche would inquire further, but the ravens both remained silent, shook their heads, spread rustling their wings, and flew forth, one up the other down the roaring Bode, to their Hort[1] in the steep rocks of the Bodethal, which still bear the name of the Rabenstein.
Who acts: Fischersche, ravens · What happens: inquire, remain, shake, spread, rustle, fly · To what, where: Hort, heads, wings, one, roaring, steep rocks
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 (Fischersche, ravens), 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 | Fischersche | Fischersche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 inquire | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 inquire | aux |
| 3 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | further | further | ADV | _ | 3 inquire | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remained | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 remained | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ravens | det |
| 8 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remained | nsubj |
| 9 | both | both | ADV | _ | 10 remained | advmod |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inquire | parataxis |
| 11 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remained | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shook | punct |
| 13 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remained | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shook | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spread | punct |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 inquire | conj |
| 18 | rustling | rustle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 spread | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rustling | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inquire | conj |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 flew | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 one | compound:prt |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 other | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 one | amod |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 roaring | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 roaring | det |
| 32 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 33 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 roaring | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Hort | punct |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Hort | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 Hort | nmod:poss |
| 37 | Hort | Hort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 inquire | obl |
| 38 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 39 1 | punct |
| 39 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 rocks | discourse |
| 40 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 39 1 | punct |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 rocks | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 rocks | det |
| 43 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rocks | amod |
| 44 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Hort | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Bodethal | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Bodethal | det |
| 47 | Bodethal | Bodethal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 rocks | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 bear | punct |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 bear | obj |
| 50 | still | still | ADV | _ | 51 bear | advmod |
| 51 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 rocks | parataxis |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 name | det |
| 53 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 bear | obj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Rabenstein | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 Rabenstein | det |
| 56 | Rabenstein | Rabenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 name | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inquire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | would | Fischersche | drinks's Hort in the steep rocks of the Bodethal | further property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | remain | past | the ravens | both, silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | the ravens not said here | drinks's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spread | present | Fischersche not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rustle | gerund | Fischersche not said here | drinks's wings | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fly | past | Fischersche not said here | one | the roaring | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme down roaring=Trajectory | ||
| 7 | bear | present | the steep rocks of the Bodethal | still | the name of the Rabenstein obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary name=Patient | |||
| 8 | name | the Rabenstein | nom name «communication 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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