Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 33
A coaler had met the child wandering through the wood, took her at first for an angel, and in his hut the retainers had found her.
Who acts: coaler, child · What happens: meet, wonder, take, find · To what, where: child, wood, retainers, hut
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 (coaler, child), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coaler | det |
| 2 | coaler | coaler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | aux |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 child | acl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wandering | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 took | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 angel | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 angel | det |
| 18 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 found | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hut | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hut | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 retainers | det |
| 25 | retainers | retainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 found | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 found | aux |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 met | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | a coaler | the child | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the child not said here | the wood | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a coaler not said here | child | for a angel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for angel=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | find | past · perfect · passive | the retainers | coaler's hut | child obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute |
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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