Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 169
Finally, it struck the inhabitants as something very remarkable that those who had entered the cave with the two strangers never returned, and henceforth they failed to find a follower.
Who acts: third, two strangers, lots · What happens: strike, enter, not return, fail, not find · To what, where: inhabitants, those, follower
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 (third, two strangers, lots), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inhabitants | det |
| 6 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 struck | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 something | case |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 struck | obl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 remarkable | advmod |
| 10 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 something | amod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 entered | mark |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 entered | aux |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 remarkable | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 strangers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 strangers | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 strangers | nummod |
| 21 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cave | nmod |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 returned | advmod |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 strangers | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 failed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 failed | cc |
| 26 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 28 failed | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 failed | nsubj |
| 28 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 find | mark |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 failed | xcomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 follower | det |
| 32 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | third | the inhabitants | as something; finally property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient | |||
| 2 | enter | past · perfect · passive | those | who nsubj; the cave obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not return | past | the two strangers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fail | past | lots = lot | henceforth property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not find | to-infinitive | lots = lot not said here | a follower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent follower=Topic |
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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