Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 43
He, however, soon recovered, moved from Osterhagen to Andreasburg, where he built a handsome house, and never forgot that it was through his wife's forethought that wealth and happiness had been won.
Who acts: Schlosser, house · What happens: recover, move, build, not forget, be, win · To what, where: Andreasburg, Osterhagen, handsome house, forethought, happiness
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schlosser, house), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 recovered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 He | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 recovered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 recovered | advmod |
| 6 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recovered | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Osterhagen | case |
| 10 | Osterhagen | Osterhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Andreasburg | case |
| 12 | Andreasburg | Andreasburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 built | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 built | nsubj |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Andreasburg | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 18 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgot | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 forgot | cc |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 forgot | advmod |
| 23 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recovered | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 forethought | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 forethought | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 forethought | cop |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 forethought | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forethought | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 wife | case |
| 31 | forethought | forethought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forgot | obj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 wealth | det |
| 33 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forethought | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 won | cc |
| 35 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 won | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 won | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 won | aux:pass |
| 38 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 forethought | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | Schlosser | however, soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | move | past | Schlosser not said here | Andreasburg | Osterhagen | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from osterhagen=Initial_Location to andreasburg=Destination | |||
| 3 | build | past | Schlosser | a handsome house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 4 | not forget | past | Schlosser not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | house | Schlosser's wife's forethought | that wealth nmod:unmarked; Schlosser's wife nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | win | past · perfect · passive | happiness | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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