Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 62
Beside the copper lay a new driving-whip, and on the other side lay a savage black bull-dog.
What happens: lie · To what, where: new driving whip, copper, savage black bull dog, other side
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: 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 copper | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 copper | det |
| 3 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 whip | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 whip | amod |
| 7 | driving | driving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whip | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 driving | punct |
| 9 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 18 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dog | amod |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dog | amod |
| 20 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dog | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 bull | punct |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a new driving whip | the copper | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | a savage black bull dog | the other side | tree rules |
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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