Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 4
At the next visit, at the end of the second year, they were grown still whiter.
What happens: grow · To what, where: ladies, next visit
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 visit | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 visit | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 visit | amod |
| 4 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grown | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 end | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 year | amod |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 visit | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grown | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grown | aux:pass |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 whiter | advmod |
| 18 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 grown | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · passive | ladies = lady | the next visit | white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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