Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 54
I see there only ruins, where once a strong castle raised its towers.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, raise · To what, where: ruins, strong castle
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 see | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 ruins | advmod |
| 5 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 raised | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 raised | advmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 castle | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ruins | acl:relcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 towers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 raised | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | ruins | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | raise | participle · passive | a strong castle | castle's towers obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme tower=Destination |
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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