Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 134
For a period of four years, Alice, disguised in a grey wig, with an artificial hump on her back, sought Eva, wandering from castle to castle, from town to town through the mountains; but without discovering the faintest trace of either Eva or nurse Magda.
What happens: disguise, seek, wonder, discover · To what, where: Alice, Eva, castle, faintest trace
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 period | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sought | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 period | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Alice | punct |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 period | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 disguised | punct |
| 10 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Alice | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wig | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wig | det |
| 13 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wig | amod |
| 14 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disguised | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hump | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hump | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hump | det |
| 18 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hump | amod |
| 19 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disguised | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 back | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hump | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 period | punct |
| 24 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sought | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wandering | punct |
| 27 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 sought | advcl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 castle | case |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 castle | case |
| 31 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 town | punct |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 town | case |
| 34 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 town | case |
| 36 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 town | nmod |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 mountains | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mountains | det |
| 39 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 town | nmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 Magda | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 Magda | cc |
| 42 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 43 discovering | mark |
| 43 | discovering | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 52 Magda | amod |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 trace | det |
| 45 | faintest | faint | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 trace | amod |
| 46 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 discovering | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Eva | case |
| 48 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 49 Eva | cc:preconj |
| 49 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 trace | nmod |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 nurse | cc |
| 51 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 trace | conj |
| 52 | Magda | Magda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sought | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | participle | Alice not said here | with a artificial hump on Alice's back; in a grey wig | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wig=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | Eva | for a period of four years; discovering Magda obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eva=Location for period=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | castle | to castle; from town to town through the mountains | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | discover | gerund | the faintest trace of Eva or nurse | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
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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