Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 142
Alice, who heard these reports, knowing what others did not, that Eva was not in the vaults of the convent at Gandersheim, resolved to make a visit to the Staufenburg, thinking very likely the reports of the lady in white were not simply wild mountain tales, but having some truth in them.
Who acts: Alice, others, Eva, reports · What happens: hear, know, not do, not be, resolve, make · To what, where: reports, vaults, visit, wild mountain tales, truth, lady · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Alice, others, Eva, reports), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 reports | det |
| 6 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knowing | punct |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 did | obj |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knowing | ccomp |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 did | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vaults | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 vaults | mark |
| 15 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 vaults | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 vaults | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 vaults | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 vaults | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vaults | det |
| 20 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 convent | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 convent | det |
| 23 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vaults | nmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 Gandersheim | case |
| 25 | Gandersheim | Gandersheim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 convent | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 resolved | punct |
| 27 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 vaults | acl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 make | mark |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 resolved | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 visit | det |
| 31 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 make | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Staufenburg | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Staufenburg | det |
| 34 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 visit | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thinking | punct |
| 36 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 make | conj |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 likely | advmod |
| 38 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 36 thinking | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 reports | det |
| 40 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 tales | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 lady | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 lady | det |
| 43 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 reports | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 white | case |
| 45 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 lady | nmod |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 tales | cop |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 tales | advmod |
| 48 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 51 tales | advmod |
| 49 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 tales | amod |
| 50 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tales | compound |
| 51 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 thinking | parataxis |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 having | punct |
| 53 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 54 having | cc |
| 54 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 resolved | advcl |
| 55 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 56 truth | det |
| 56 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 having | obj |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 them | case |
| 58 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 having | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Alice | this reports | who nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer report=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | Alice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not do | past | others | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | Eva | the vaults | of the convent at Gandersheim | tree rules | |||
| 5 | resolve | participle | the vaults not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | a visit | to the Staufenburg | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset visit=Product | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | gerund | likely property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not is a | past | the reports of the lady in white | wild mountain tales | simply property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | have | gerund | some truth | in reports = report | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | ||||
| 10 | report | the lady in white | nom report «communication 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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