Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 64
In this romantic neighbourhood, in the thick fir forest, stand the crumbling tower and scraps of broken walls of the Königsburg, overshadowed by the green veil of the wood, moss, ivy, and wild-flowers, and the mystic fascination of a time more than a thousand years ago.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, break, overshadow, fascinate · To what, where: crumbling tower, romantic neighbourhood, time
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 (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 neighbourhood | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 neighbourhood | det |
| 3 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 neighbourhood | amod |
| 4 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forest | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forest | amod |
| 9 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forest | compound |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neighbourhood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighbourhood | punct |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tower | det |
| 14 | crumbling | crumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tower | compound |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scraps | cc |
| 17 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tower | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 walls | case |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 walls | amod |
| 20 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scraps | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Königsburg | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Königsburg | det |
| 23 | Königsburg | Königsburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 walls | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 overshadowed | punct |
| 25 | overshadowed | overshadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tower | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 veil | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 veil | det |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 veil | amod |
| 29 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overshadowed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wood | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wood | det |
| 32 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 veil | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 moss | punct |
| 34 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wood | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ivy | punct |
| 36 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wood | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 flowers | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 flowers | cc |
| 39 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 flowers | amod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 wild | punct |
| 41 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tower | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 more | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 more | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 fascination | det |
| 45 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 fascination | amod |
| 46 | fascination | fascination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 more | nsubj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 time | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 time | det |
| 49 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fascination | nmod |
| 50 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 53 thousand | advmod |
| 51 | than | than | ADP | _ | 50 more | fixed |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 thousand | det |
| 53 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 54 years | nummod |
| 54 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 55 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 stand | advmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the crumbling tower and scraps of broken walls of the Königsburg and wild flowers | this romantic neighbourhood and the thick fir forest | ago property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tower=Theme in neighbourhood=Destination | ||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | overshadow | participle | you not said here | by the green veil of the wood and moss and ivy | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fascinate | a time | nom fascination «state 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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