Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 34
Approaching them, she asked permission to take some of the burning coals to kindle her fire.
Who acts: discovery, permission · What happens: approach, ask, take, burn, kindle, fire · To what, where: men, permission, some, fire
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (discovery, permission), 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 | Approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 asked | advcl |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Approaching | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Approaching | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 coals | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coals | det |
| 12 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 coals | amod |
| 13 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kindle | mark |
| 15 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fire | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kindle | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | gerund | discovery not said here | men = man | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | discovery | permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | permission not said here | some of the burning coals | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | kindle | to-infinitive | permission not said here | discovery's fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fire | discovery | nom fire «event transitive»: 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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