Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 104
At last a fire destroyed the church, and the four horse-shoes are unhappily lost.
Who acts: last fire · What happens: destroy, lose · To what, where: church, four horse shoes
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last fire), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fire | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destroyed | nsubj |
| 5 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destroyed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lost | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoes | det |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 shoes | nummod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shoes | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 horse | punct |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 16 | unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 17 lost | advmod |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 destroyed | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | a last fire | the church | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | present · passive | the four horse shoes | unhappily property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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