Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 52
The thoughtful apprentice reflected unceasingly on the cause of the failure of his so skilful master in the last bell.
Who acts: thoughtful apprentice, skilful master · What happens: reflect, cause, fail · To what, where: failure
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 (thoughtful apprentice, skilful master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apprentice | det |
| 2 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apprentice | amod |
| 3 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reflected | nsubj |
| 4 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unceasingly | unceasingly | ADV | _ | 4 reflected | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 cause | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cause | det |
| 8 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reflected | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 failure | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 failure | det |
| 11 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 master | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 skilful | advmod |
| 15 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 master | amod |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 failure | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bell | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bell | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bell | amod |
| 20 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 master | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | past | the thoughtful apprentice | on the cause of the failure of Stolberg's skilful master in the last bell; unceasingly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on cause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cause | the failure of Stolberg's skilful master in the last bell | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | fail | Stolberg's skilful master in the last bell | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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