Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 4

Suddenly the forest grows thin; the vale divides itself in two arms, and in the dale to the right, we see, close by the red-roofed forage-house for game, grey rocks and ruins.

Who acts: forest, vale, we · What happens: grow, divide, see, roof · To what, where: vale, two arms, dale

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 (forest, vale, we), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grows	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 divides	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vale	det
8	vale	vale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 divides	nsubj
9	divides	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grows	conj
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 divides	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 arms	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 arms	nummod
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 divides	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dale	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dale	det
18	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 right	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 right	det
21	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dale	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dale	punct
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grows	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 close	punct
26	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 see	amod
27	by	by	ADP	_	34 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 house	det
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 roofed	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 red	punct
31	roofed	roof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 house	amod
32	forage	forage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 house	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 forage	punct
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 game	case
36	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 house	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rocks	punct
38	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 rocks	amod
39	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 house	parataxis
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ruins	cc
41	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 rocks	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the forest			suddenly, thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	divide	present	the vale	vale	two arms		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
3	see	present	we		the dale to the right		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	roof	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 4