Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 65

Desolate stand the ruins of the once imperial hunting seat, the moat so thickly overgrown with the buck-thorn that no human foot would willingly attempt to tread it.

Who acts: Desolate, human foot · What happens: stand, overgrow, attempt, tread, ruin · To what, where: ruins, moat, buck thorn, foot, imperial hunting seat

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 (Desolate, human foot), 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	Desolate	Desolate	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stand	nsubj
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ruins	det
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 seat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seat	det
7	once	once	ADV	_	8 imperial	advmod
8	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seat	amod
9	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seat	compound
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruins	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moat	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moat	det
13	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seat	appos
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 thickly	advmod
15	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moat	amod
16	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 moat	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 thorn	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thorn	det
19	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thorn	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 buck	punct
21	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overgrown	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 attempt	obj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 foot	det
24	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 foot	amod
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attempt	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 attempt	aux
27	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	28 attempt	advmod
28	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thorn	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tread	mark
30	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 attempt	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tread	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Desolate	the ruins of the imperial hunting seat		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus
2	overgrow	participle		the moat not said here	with the buck thorn	tree rules
3	attempt	would	no human foot	the buck thorn	willingly property	tree rules
4	tread not said to happen	to-infinitive	no human foot not said here	foot		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
5	ruin			the imperial hunting seat		nom ruin «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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 65