Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 138
At length these long absences excited the suspicions of the Court and the Duchess.
What happens: suspect · To what, where: Court
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 excited | obl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 absences | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 absences | amod |
| 5 | absences | absence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 excited | nsubj |
| 6 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 suspicions | det |
| 8 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 excited | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Court | det |
| 11 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suspicions | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Duchess | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Duchess | det |
| 14 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Court | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | suspect | the Court and the Duchess | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=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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