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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 73

The earth trembled, the rocks fell upon each other, trees were rent into splinters, torrents burst from the rocks, and the heavens enveloped themselves in night and flames.

Who acts: earth, rocks, torrents, heavens · What happens: tremble, fall, rend, burst, envelop · To what, where: each, trees, splinters, rocks

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 (earth, rocks, torrents, heavens), 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

detnsubjpunctdetnsubjconjcaseoblfixedpunctnsubj:passaux:passparataxiscaseoblpunctnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjconjobjcaseoblccconjpunctrootTheDETearthNOUNtrembledVERB,PUNCTtheDETrocksNOUNfellVERBuponADPeachDETotherADJ,PUNCTtreesNOUNwereAUXrentVERBintoADPsplintersNOUN,PUNCTtorrentsNOUNburstVERBfromADPtheDETrocksNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETheavensNOUNenvelopedVERBthemselvesPRONinADPnightNOUNandCCONJflamesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 earthdet
2earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing3 tremblednsubj
3trembledtrembleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_7 fellpunct
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 rocksdet
6rocksrockNOUNNumber=Plur7 fellnsubj
7fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 trembledconj
8uponuponADP_9 eachcase
9eacheachDETExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp7 fellobl
10otherotherADJDegree=Pos9 eachfixed
11,,PUNCT_14 rentpunct
12treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur14 rentnsubj:pass
13werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 rentaux:pass
14rentrendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 fellparataxis
15intointoADP_16 splinterscase
16splinterssplinterNOUNNumber=Plur14 rentobl
17,,PUNCT_19 burstpunct
18torrentstorrentNOUNNumber=Plur19 burstnsubj
19burstburstVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 rentconj
20fromfromADP_22 rockscase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 rocksdet
22rocksrockNOUNNumber=Plur19 burstobl
23,,PUNCT_27 envelopedpunct
24andandCCONJ_27 envelopedcc
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 heavensdet
26heavensheavenNOUNNumber=Plur27 envelopednsubj
27envelopedenvelopVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 trembledconj
28themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes27 envelopedobj
29ininADP_30 nightcase
30nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing27 envelopedobl
31andandCCONJ_32 flamescc
32flamesflameNOUNNumber=Plur30 nightconj
33..PUNCT_3 trembledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tremblepastthe earthvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2fallpastthe rockseachvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon each=Location
3rendpast · passivetreesinto splinters resultvn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into splinter=Result
4burstpresenttorrentsthe rocksvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5enveloppastthe heavensrocks = rocknightvn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme themselves=Co-Theme

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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