Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 18
"Certainly not," returned Adam. "
What happens: not return · To what, where: Adam
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 returned | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | past | Adam | certainly property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adam=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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