Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 96
At last he determined, though he had failed to reach the spot at the fixed hour, not to fail in the day.
Who acts: sympathy · What happens: determine, fail, not reach, fix, not fail · To what, where: last, spot
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 (sympathy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 failed | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 failed | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 failed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 failed | aux |
| 9 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 determined | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 failed | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hour | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hour | det |
| 16 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hour | amod |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fail | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 fail | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fail | mark |
| 21 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reach | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fail | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | sympathy | last | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fail | past · perfect | sympathy | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not reach | to-infinitive | sympathy not said here | the spot | hour | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||
| 4 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | not fail | to-infinitive | sympathy not said here | day | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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