Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 93
He did so, and on opening them again gazed around him in wonder, for there opposite on the dark rock stood the Treseburg, that he had so often seen in ruins.
Who acts: Graumännchen, opening · What happens: do, open, gaze, stand, have, see · To what, where: eyes, wonder, Treseburg, dark rock, ruins
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, opening), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gazed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gazed | cc |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 opening | mark |
| 7 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 gazed | csubj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opening | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 opening | advmod |
| 10 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gazed | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wonder | case |
| 14 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opposite | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 opposite | case |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 opposite | advmod |
| 18 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gazed | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 rock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rock | det |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rock | amod |
| 22 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obl |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 opposite | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Treseburg | det |
| 25 | Treseburg | Treseburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 had | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stood | conj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 seen | advmod |
| 31 | often | often | ADV | _ | 32 seen | advmod |
| 32 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 had | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 ruins | case |
| 34 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 seen | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Graumännchen | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | gerund | eyes = eye | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | opening | wonder | around Graumännchen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand | past | the Treseburg | the dark rock | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treseburg=Theme on rock=Destination | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Graumännchen | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | participle | Graumännchen not said here | ruins | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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