Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 140
Spies were sent out several times to watch the castle, but no discovery was made.
What happens: send out, watch, make · To what, where: Spies, castle, discovery
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 | Spies | spy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sent | compound:prt |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 watch | mark |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 discovery | det |
| 14 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past · passive | Spies | time | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | the castle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | no discovery | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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