Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 92
Deep melancholy seized the youths, and during their drive home the wild horses plunged with the carriage into a deep abyss, where the youths were found broken in pieces.
Who acts: Deep melancholy, youths, Goblets · What happens: seize, plunge, find, break, drive · To what, where: youths, drive, deep abyss, pieces
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 (Deep melancholy, youths, Goblets), 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 | Deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 melancholy | amod |
| 2 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youths | det |
| 5 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plunged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 plunged | cc |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 drive | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 drive | nmod:poss |
| 10 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plunged | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 drive | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horses | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horses | amod |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 plunged | nsubj |
| 15 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seized | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 carriage | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 carriage | det |
| 18 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plunged | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 abyss | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 abyss | det |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 abyss | amod |
| 22 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plunged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 found | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youths | det |
| 26 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 abyss | acl:relcl |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 found | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 pieces | case |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 broken | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Deep melancholy | the youths | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plunge | participle · passive | Goblets's drive | a deep abyss | with the carriage; the wild horses nsubj | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past · passive | the youths | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break | participle | the youths not said here | pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location | ||||
| 5 | drive | Goblets = goblet | nom drive «act 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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