Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 24

The Abbess and her plotting nuns were found awfully disfigured; and now, it is said, the Abbess appears in form of a serpent every seven years near the grave under the lindens.

Who acts: Abbess · What happens: plot, find, disfigure, say, appear, form · To what, where: Abbess, pillar, form, serpent · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Abbess), 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	8 found	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nuns	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nuns	nmod:poss
5	plotting	plot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nuns	amod
6	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Abbess	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	10 disfigured	advmod
10	disfigured	disfigure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	aux:pass
17	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appears	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Abbess	det
20	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 appears	nsubj
21	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 form	case
23	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appears	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 serpent	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 serpent	det
26	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 form	nmod
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 years	det
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 appears	obl:unmarked
30	near	near	ADP	_	32 grave	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grave	det
32	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 years	nmod
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 lindens	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lindens	det
35	lindens	linden	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 appears	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plot	gerund						vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past · passive		the Abbess and Abbess's plotting nuns				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	disfigure	participle					awfully property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present · passive		pillar		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	appear	present	the Abbess		form of a serpent	year	under the lindens	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location
6	form			a serpent				nom form «communication 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 3, sentence 24