Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 119
The maiden bade him take what he would, for he was so overcome with astonishment and terror that he could not move.
Who acts: ground · What happens: take, be, not move · To what, where: maiden bade, terror
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground), 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 | 3 bade | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bade | amod |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 would | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 overcome | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 overcome | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 overcome | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 overcome | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 overcome | advmod |
| 14 | overcome | overcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 take | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 astonishment | case |
| 16 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 overcome | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 terror | cc |
| 18 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 astonishment | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 move | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 move | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 move | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 move | advmod |
| 23 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 terror | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | ground | the maiden bade | what obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | ground | with astonishment and terror; overcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not move | could | ground | terror not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent terror=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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