Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 63
But whether it was that he had left out a word, or was not earnest and devotional enough, the castle and its enclosing walls stood immovable.
Who acts: earnest · What happens: leave out, not be, be, stand · To what, where: leave
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 (earnest), 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 | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 2 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 left | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 left | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 left | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 earnest | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 earnest | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 earnest | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 earnest | advmod |
| 16 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 devotional | cc |
| 18 | devotional | devotional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 earnest | conj |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 devotional | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 castle | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 walls | cc |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 walls | nmod:poss |
| 25 | enclosing | enclosing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walls | compound |
| 26 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 castle | conj |
| 27 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | parataxis |
| 28 | immovable | immovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stood | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | past · perfect · passive | leave | One nsubj; a word obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | earn property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | enough property | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past | earnest | the castle and leave's enclosing walls nsubj; immovable property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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