Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 93

The Abbess knew of the love of the young novice, and watched her with Argus eyes, not out of holy zeal, for the convent had long been ill-renowned for the impure life of its inmates, but out of hatred to the maiden whose father she had loved, but with an unrequited affection.

Who acts: Abbess, convent · What happens: know, watch, be, love · To what, where: Abbess, holy zeal, maiden father, young novice

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abbess, convent), 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 Abbess	det
2	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 love	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 love	det
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 novice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 novice	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 novice	amod
10	novice	novice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 love	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watched	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watched	cc
13	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 watched	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
16	Argus	Argus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 eyes	compound
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 watched	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 zeal	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 zeal	advmod
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 zeal	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 zeal	case
22	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 zeal	amod
23	zeal	zeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 renowned	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 renowned	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 convent	det
27	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 renowned	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 renowned	aux
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 renowned	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 renowned	cop
31	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 renowned	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ill	punct
33	renowned	renowned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 watched	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 life	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 life	det
36	impure	impure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 life	amod
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 renowned	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 inmates	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 inmates	nmod:poss
40	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 life	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hatred	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 hatred	cc
43	out	out	ADP	_	45 hatred	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 hatred	case
45	hatred	hatred	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	parataxis
46	to	to	ADP	_	50 father	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 father	det
48	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 father	amod
49	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	50 father	nmod:poss
50	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hatred	nmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 loved	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 loved	aux
53	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 father	acl:relcl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 affection	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 affection	cc
56	with	with	ADP	_	59 affection	case
57	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 affection	det
58	unrequited	unrequited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 affection	amod
59	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hatred	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Abbess			of the love of the young novice; hatred to hatred to hatred's maiden father but a unrequited affection's maiden father but a unrequited affection parataxis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of love=Stimulus
2	watch	past		Abbess	holy zeal	with Argus eyes	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	the convent			for the impure life of convent's inmates; long, renowned property	tree rules
4	love	past · perfect	Abbess	hatred to hatred to the maiden father but a unrequited affection's maiden father but a unrequited affection's maiden father not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
5	love			the young novice			nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 93

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 93