Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 3
Now the vale narrows, magnificent walls of rock rise, and picturesque waterfalls toss themselves down the stream.
Who acts: vale narrows, picturesque waterfalls · What happens: rise, toss down · To what, where: waterfalls
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vale narrows, picturesque waterfalls), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 rise | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrows | det |
| 3 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 narrows | compound |
| 4 | narrows | narrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rise | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walls | punct |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 walls | amod |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 narrows | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walls | nmod |
| 10 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toss | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 toss | cc |
| 13 | picturesque | picturesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 waterfalls | amod |
| 14 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 toss | nsubj |
| 15 | toss | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rise | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 toss | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 toss | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 toss | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the vale narrows and magnificent walls of rock | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | toss down | present | picturesque waterfalls | waterfalls = waterfall | the stream obl:unmarked | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/8/3/