Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 80
A beloved wife lay at home ill, six hungry children waited with her anxiously for his return, and he must return with empty hands.
Who acts: beloved wife, six hungry children, wanderer · What happens: lay, wait, return · To what, where: home
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 (beloved wife, six hungry children, wanderer), 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 | 3 wife | det |
| 2 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waited | punct |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 children | nummod |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 waited | nsubj |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waited | obl |
| 15 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 12 waited | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 return | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 return | nmod:poss |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waited | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 return | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 return | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 return | aux |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 hands | case |
| 25 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hands | amod |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 return | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a beloved wife | home | ill property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at home=Destination | |||
| 2 | wait | past | six hungry children | with wife; for wanderer's return; anxiously property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | must | wanderer | with empty hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | wanderer | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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