Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 116
Three years passed away after this interview, and Eva remained securely hidden; but Henry's absences from Court grew longer and more frequent, and at last one of the courtiers resolved to penetrate the mystery.
Who acts: Eva, absences, Henry · What happens: pass away, remain, hide, grow, resolve, penetrate · To what, where: mystery, Court
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 (Eva, absences, Henry), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 interview | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 interview | det |
| 7 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remained | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 remained | cc |
| 10 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 remained | nsubj |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 12 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 13 hidden | advmod |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 remained | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 grew | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 grew | cc |
| 16 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 absences | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Henry | case |
| 18 | absences | absence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Court | case |
| 20 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 absences | nmod |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 grew | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 frequent | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 frequent | advmod |
| 25 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 longer | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 resolved | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 resolved | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 29 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 resolved | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 courtiers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 courtiers | det |
| 33 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 grew | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 penetrate | mark |
| 36 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 resolved | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mystery | det |
| 38 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 penetrate | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | after this interview; year | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | Eva | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | participle | Eva not said here | securely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | Henry's absences from Court | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | resolve | past | Henry's absences from Court not said here | at last one of the courtiers | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | penetrate | to-infinitive | Henry's absences from Court not said here | the mystery | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Patient | ||||
| 7 | absent | Henry | Court | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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