Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 77
On his way home the countryman looked again into the cave, but nothing more was to be seen either of the flames or the guilty Earl.
Who acts: countryman · What happens: look, see · To what, where: nothing
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 (countryman), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 countryman | det |
| 6 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 seen | cc |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 nothing | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 looked | advcl |
| 20 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 seen | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flames | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flames | det |
| 23 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 either | nmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 Earl | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Earl | det |
| 26 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Earl | amod |
| 27 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 flames | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the countryman | again | into the cave; on countryman's way | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on way=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past · passive | nothing | tree rules |
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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