Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 50
What can have started them and allured them away?
What happens: start, allure away · To what, where: sons
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 started | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 started | aux |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 allured | cc |
| 7 | allured | allure | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 allured | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 allured | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | can · perfect | sons = son | What obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allure away | past | sons = son | away property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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