Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 72
But as he did so the eyes of the dog shot fire, an awful groaning and noise, a raging storm, thunder, lightning, with cracking of the rocks, broke forth in fury.
Who acts: Jacob, eyes, rocks · What happens: do, shoot, rage, break, crack · To what, where: fire, fury
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 (Jacob, eyes, rocks), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 shot | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shot | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shot | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod |
| 11 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 groaning | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 groaning | det |
| 15 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 groaning | amod |
| 16 | groaning | groaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 noise | cc |
| 18 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 groaning | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 storm | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 storm | det |
| 21 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 storm | amod |
| 22 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thunder | punct |
| 24 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lightning | punct |
| 26 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cracking | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 cracking | case |
| 29 | cracking | cracking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 rocks | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rocks | det |
| 32 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 cracking | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 broke | punct |
| 34 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shot | conj |
| 35 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 34 broke | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 fury | case |
| 37 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 broke | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Jacob | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past | the eyes of the dog | fire and a awful groaning and noise and a raging storm and thunder and lightning | with cracking of the rocks | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fire=Patient with cracking=Instrument | |||
| 3 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | break | past | the eyes of the dog not said here | fury | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Location | |||
| 5 | crack | the rocks | nom cracking «event intransitive»: of=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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