Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 13
Both looked up, but did not see the Abbess, who was watching them for their destruction.
Who acts: clouds · What happens: look up, not see, watch, destroy · To what, where: Abbess, clouds
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds), 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 | Both | both | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Abbess | det |
| 10 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watching | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 watching | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 watching | aux |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 watching | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 destruction | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 18 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | both property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | the Abbess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer abbess=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | clouds = cloud | for clouds's destruction; who nsubj | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location for destruction=Theme | ||||
| 4 | destroy | clouds = cloud | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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