Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 62
"The day before, on going out for a drive, we had locked our door, and the Mac Stabs denied our right to lock any door, or even to keep any door-key.
Who acts: day, Mac Stabs · What happens: go out, lock, deny, keep · To what, where: we, right, door, door key
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 (day, Mac Stabs), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 locked | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 locked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 day | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 going | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 drive | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drive | det |
| 11 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 locked | aux |
| 15 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 door | nmod:poss |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 locked | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 denied | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 denied | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Stabs | det |
| 21 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Stabs | compound |
| 22 | Stabs | Stab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 denied | nsubj |
| 23 | denied | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 locked | parataxis |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 right | nmod:poss |
| 25 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 denied | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 lock | mark |
| 27 | lock | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 right | acl |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lock | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 keep | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 keep | cc |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 keep | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 keep | mark |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 denied | conj |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 key | det |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 key | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 door | punct |
| 38 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out in a quote | gerund | the day not said here | for a drive | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lock in a quote | past · perfect · passive | we | day | our door obj | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient door=Result | |||
| 3 | deny in a quote | past | the Mac Stabs | our right | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lock in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mac Stabs not said here | any door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mac Stabs not said here | any door key | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
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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