Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 77
The reply to this letter was absolute silence, and the sudden disappearance of the Mac Stabs from the town.
Who acts: reply, Mac Stabs · What happens: be, disappear · To what, where: absolute silence, town
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 (reply, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 silence | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 letter | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reply | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 silence | cop |
| 7 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 silence | amod |
| 8 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappearance | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappearance | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 disappearance | det |
| 12 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 disappearance | amod |
| 13 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 silence | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Stabs | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Stabs | det |
| 16 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Stabs | compound |
| 17 | Stabs | Stab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 disappearance | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappearance | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 silence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the reply to this letter | absolute silence | the sudden disappearance of the Mac Stabs from the town appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disappear | the Mac Stabs | the town | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent from=place |
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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