Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 57
The border of the wood was soon reached, but no trace of the dogs was to be seen.
What happens: reach, see · To what, where: border, trace
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 border | det |
| 2 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 border | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | aux:pass |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 reached | advmod |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 seen | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 trace | det |
| 12 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dogs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dogs | det |
| 15 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trace | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 reached | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · passive | the border of the wood | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | no trace of the dogs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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