Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 25
Soon after new eave-troughs were put on the gentleman's house, and the spoons were all found where the raven had hidden them.
What happens: put, find, hide · To what, where: new eave troughs, house, spoons, raven
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 put | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 troughs | case |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 troughs | amod |
| 4 | eave | eave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 troughs | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 eave | punct |
| 6 | troughs | trough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux:pass |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gentleman | det |
| 11 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 gentleman | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spoons | det |
| 17 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 found | advmod |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 put | conj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 hidden | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 raven | det |
| 23 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hidden | aux |
| 25 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 found | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hidden | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | new eave troughs | the gentleman's house | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on house=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | past · passive | the spoons | all property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the raven | spoons = spoon obj | tree rules |
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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