Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 1
Accordingly Alice made her way to the Staufenburg, and after watching from the thick woods three whole days she saw her mother, Magda, issue from a small postern door in the outer walls, so hidden by trees and underbrush as to be unseen when shut.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: make, watch, see, hide, be · To what, where: her, thick woods, mother
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Staufenburg | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Staufenburg | det |
| 8 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 watching | mark |
| 12 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 saw | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 woods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woods | det |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woods | amod |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 watching | obl |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 days | amod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 watching | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Magda | punct |
| 25 | Magda | Magda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mother | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 issue | punct |
| 27 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mother | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 30 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 door | amod |
| 31 | postern | postern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 door | compound |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 issue | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 walls | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 walls | det |
| 35 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 walls | amod |
| 36 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 door | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hidden | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 hidden | advmod |
| 39 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 saw | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 trees | case |
| 41 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hidden | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 underbrush | cc |
| 43 | underbrush | underbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trees | conj |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 unseen | mark |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 unseen | mark |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 unseen | cop |
| 47 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hidden | advcl |
| 48 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 shut | advmod |
| 49 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 unseen | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Alice | her = she | to the Staufenburg; way obl:unmarked; accordingly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Alice not said here | the thick woods | day | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | see | past | Alice | Alice's mother and issue from a small postern door in the outer walls | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | Alice not said here | by trees and underbrush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | unseen property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | Alice not said here | tree rules |
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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