Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 80
At the news of the wonderful discovery, half the town went out to the wood to see the spot where the treasure had been found.
Who acts: town · What happens: go out, see, find · To what, where: news, spot, treasure
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: who acts (town), 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 | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 discovery | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 discovery | det |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 discovery | amod |
| 7 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 news | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 town | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 found | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 treasure | det |
| 23 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 spot | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | half town | the news of the wonderful discovery | to the wood; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | half town not said here | the spot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect · passive | the treasure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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