Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 19
But the monk, so soon as he had fulfilled his contract, disappeared, and even gratitude could find no trace of him.
Who acts: monk · What happens: fulfil, find, contract · To what, where: contract, trace
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk), 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 | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monk | det |
| 3 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fulfilled | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fulfilled | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 fulfilled | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fulfilled | aux |
| 10 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 monk | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 contract | nmod:poss |
| 12 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fulfilled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disappeared | punct |
| 14 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 contract | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 gratitude | advmod |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 trace | det |
| 22 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trace | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past · perfect | monk | monk's contract | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | could | the monk | no trace of gratitude | gratitude nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic | |||
| 3 | contract | monk | nom contract «communication 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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