Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 67

But the lovers little imagined that one person knew Eva was not lying in the damp vaults of the convent, and that they would be at the mercy of this discoverer.

Who acts: lovers, one person, Eva, persons · What happens: imagine, know, not lie, be · To what, where: damp vaults, mercy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovers, one person, Eva, persons), 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	_	5 imagined	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lovers	det
3	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 imagined	nsubj
4	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 imagined	advmod
5	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 person	nummod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 imagined	advcl
10	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 lying	advmod
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 knew	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 vaults	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 vaults	det
16	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 vaults	amod
17	vaults	vault	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lying	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 convent	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 convent	det
20	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vaults	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mercy	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mercy	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 mercy	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mercy	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 mercy	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 mercy	cop
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 mercy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mercy	det
29	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 discoverer	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 discoverer	det
32	discoverer	discoverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mercy	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 imagined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	past	the lovers		little property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	know	past	one person			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not lie	past · progressive	Eva	the damp vaults of the convent		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vault=Location
4	is	would	persons = person	the mercy	of this discoverer	tree rules

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 67