Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 38

In the time long ago, when all this district was covered with dense forests, swamps, and morasses, where now ripen the golden corn, fruits, and every blessing that crowns the husbandman's toil, and wild beasts preyed on the around-lying mountains, evil spirits practised their devices in the Gegensteine.

Who acts: blessing, wild beasts, evil spirits, husbandman · What happens: cover, ripen, crown, prey, lie, practise · To what, where: district, golden corn, toil, lying mountains, devices, Gegensteine

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 (blessing, wild beasts, evil spirits, husbandman), 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	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 covered	obl
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ago	advmod
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 covered	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 district	det:predet
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 district	det
10	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 covered	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 covered	aux:pass
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 forests	case
14	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 forests	amod
15	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swamps	punct
17	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 forests	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 morasses	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 morasses	cc
20	morasses	morass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ripen	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 ripen	advmod
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 ripen	advmod
24	ripen	ripen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 morasses	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 corn	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 corn	amod
27	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ripen	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fruits	punct
29	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 corn	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 blessing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 blessing	cc
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 blessing	det
33	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 covered	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 crowns	nsubj
35	crowns	crown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 blessing	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 husbandman	det
37	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 toil	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 husbandman	case
39	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crowns	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 preyed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 preyed	cc
42	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beasts	amod
43	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 preyed	nsubj
44	preyed	prey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 covered	parataxis
45	on	on	ADP	_	50 mountains	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mountains	det
47	around	around	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lying	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 around	punct
49	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 mountains	amod
50	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 preyed	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 practised	punct
52	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 spirits	amod
53	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 practised	nsubj
54	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 preyed	conj
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 devices	nmod:poss
56	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 practised	obj
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 Gegensteine	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Gegensteine	det
59	Gegensteine	Gegensteine	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 practised	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		all district		time	with dense forests and swamps; morasses advcl; every blessing conj	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=Theme
2	ripen	present		the golden corn and fruits		now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
3	crown	present	every blessing	the husbandman's toil				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toil=Theme
4	prey	past	wild beasts		the lying mountains			tree rules
5	lie	gerund					around compound	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	practise	past	evil spirits	spirits's devices	the Gegensteine			tree rules
7	toil		the husbandman					nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 38