Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 11
About a Stunde[1] from Treseburg, up the Bode, lies the picturesque foundry village Attenbrack, the spot where in the old days Schloss Schöneburg looked down from its high, steep mountain seat into the vale below.
Who acts: Stunde, Schloss · What happens: lie, look down · To what, where: picturesque foundry village
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stunde, Schloss), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 Stunde | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Stunde | det |
| 3 | Stunde | Stunde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 1 | punct |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Stunde | flat |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 1 | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Treseburg | case |
| 8 | Treseburg | Treseburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Stunde | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bode | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 Bode | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bode | det |
| 12 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Treseburg | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stunde | punct |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 village | det |
| 16 | picturesque | picturesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 village | amod |
| 17 | foundry | foundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 village | compound |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | obj |
| 19 | Attenbrack | Attenbrack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 village | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spot | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Attenbrack | appos |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 looked | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 days | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 days | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 days | amod |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 looked | obl |
| 28 | Schloss | Schloss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 29 | Schöneburg | Schöneburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Schloss | flat |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spot | acl:relcl |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 looked | compound:prt |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 seat | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 seat | nmod:poss |
| 34 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 seat | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 high | punct |
| 36 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 seat | amod |
| 37 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seat | compound |
| 38 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | obl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 vale | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 vale | det |
| 41 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | obl |
| 42 | below | below | ADV | _ | 41 vale | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a Stunde from Treseburg and the Bode | the picturesque foundry village | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location village=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look down | past | Schloss | day | into the vale; from Stunde's high steep mountain seat | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from seat=Theme |
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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