Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 82

Olga set off alone in her wild grief, to search on the battle-field, knowing we would not let her go; and when we first missed her, we had no idea how long she had been gone.

Who acts: Olga, we · What happens: set off, search, know, not let, go, miss · To what, where: wild grief, battle field, Olga, idea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Olga, we), 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	Olga	Olga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 set	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 grief	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grief	nmod:poss
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grief	amod
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 search	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 search	mark
11	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 set	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
14	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 field	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 battle	punct
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 search	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knowing	punct
18	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 search	advcl
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knowing	ccomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 missed	advmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 missed	nsubj
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 missed	advmod
30	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 had	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 missed	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 missed	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 idea	det
36	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 long	advmod
38	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 gone	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 gone	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 gone	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 gone	aux:pass
42	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 had	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set off	past	Olga		Olga's wild grief	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	search	to-infinitive	Olga not said here		the battle field		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on field=Location
3	know	gerund	Olga not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not let	would	we	Olga			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	Olga not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	miss	past	we	Olga		first property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	have	past	we	no idea			tree rules
8	go	past · perfect · passive		Olga		long property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 82