Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 25

He saw it all clearly, for it was mid-day, and there within the mouldering walls the twelve knights played on, and he heard the rolling and bouncing of the balls.

Who acts: forest, rattle, twelve knights · What happens: see, be, moulder, play on, hear · To what, where: rattle, mouldering walls, rolling

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 (forest, rattle, twelve knights), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 saw	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mid-day	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 mid-day	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mid-day	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mid-day	cop
10	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 there	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 there	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 saw	parataxis
14	within	within	ADP	_	17 walls	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 walls	det
16	mouldering	moulder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 walls	amod
17	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 there	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knights	det
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 knights	nummod
20	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 played	nsubj
21	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 walls	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 played	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rolling	det
28	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bouncing	cc
30	bouncing	bouncing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rolling	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 balls	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 balls	det
33	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bouncing	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	forest	rattle	clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	past	rattle		for mid-day	tree rules
3	moulder	gerund				tree rules
4	play on	past	the twelve knights	the mouldering walls not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme
5	hear	past	forest	the rolling and bouncing of the balls		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rolling=Stimulus

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 8, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 25