Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 53
Meanwhile the terrible din and roar had ceased, all grew peaceful, the birds sang joyfully in the sunlight, and all notion of danger vanished from his mind.
Who acts: birds, notion, farmer · What happens: cease, grow, sing, vanish, mind · To what, where: terrible din, sunlight, mind
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 (birds, notion, farmer), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 ceased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 din | det |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 din | amod |
| 4 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 roar | cc |
| 6 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 din | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ceased | aux |
| 8 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 grew | advmod |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ceased | conj |
| 12 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sang | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 birds | det |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sang | nsubj |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 17 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 16 sang | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sunlight | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sunlight | det |
| 20 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sang | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vanished | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 vanished | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 notion | det |
| 24 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vanished | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 danger | case |
| 26 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 notion | nmod |
| 27 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 mind | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mind | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vanished | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past · perfect · passive | the terrible din and roar | meanwhile property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | peaceful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the birds | the sunlight | joyfully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location | |||
| 4 | vanish | past | all notion of danger | farmer's mind | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | mind | farmer | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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