Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 61
There were two or three strangers staying in the house who had also gone out, hence there was no one but the family at home.
Who acts: two strangers, house, staying · What happens: be, stay, go out · To what, where: house, one
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two strangers, house, staying), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 strangers | nummod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 three | cc |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 two | conj |
| 6 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 7 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 one | csubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staying | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 gone | advmod |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 gone | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 19 was | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strangers | nmod |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 family | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 home | case |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 family | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two strangers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | the house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||||
| 3 | go out | past · perfect | the house | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | staying | no one but the family at home | the family at home conj | 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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