Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 72

To a stranger who had not been behind the scenes it was an innocent and pure family scene, betraying nothing of the wrong and bitterness these relations had caused.

Who acts: stranger, scenes, innocent family scene · What happens: have, not be, be, betray, cause · To what, where: scenes, innocent family scene, nothing, relations

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 (stranger, scenes, innocent family scene), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 stranger	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stranger	acl:relcl
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 scenes	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 scenes	cop
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 scenes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scenes	det
10	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 scene	nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scene	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 scene	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 scene	det
14	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scene	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pure	cc
16	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 innocent	conj
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scene	compound
18	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 betraying	punct
20	betraying	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 scene	acl
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 betraying	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 wrong	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wrong	det
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nothing	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bitterness	cc
26	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nothing	conj
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 relations	det
28	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 caused	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 caused	aux
30	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 betraying	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stranger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	a stranger				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			the scenes		tree rules
3	is a	past	the scenes	a innocent family scene		scene nsubj	tree rules
4	betray	gerund	a innocent family scene not said here	nothing of the wrong bitterness			tree rules
5	cause	past · perfect · passive		this relations			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 72