Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 61
It was certain that he had never before seen the neighbourhood, and that he had been transplanted from Scharzfels to the spot by enchantment.
Who acts: castle, One · What happens: be, see, transplant · To what, where: neighbourhood, One, Scharzfels
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 (castle, One), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | cop |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 before | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 certain | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neighbourhood | det |
| 11 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 transplanted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 transplanted | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 transplanted | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 transplanted | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 transplanted | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 transplanted | aux:pass |
| 18 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 certain | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Scharzfels | case |
| 20 | Scharzfels | Scharzfels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 transplanted | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 spot | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spot | det |
| 23 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transplanted | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 enchantment | case |
| 25 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | castle | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | One | the neighbourhood | never | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbourhood=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | transplant | past · perfect · passive | One | Scharzfels | to the spot by enchantment | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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