Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 36

At last she took some coals, saying to herself, "No answer means yes," carried them home and laid them on the hearth, but they would not burn.

Who acts: discovery, answer, coals · What happens: take, say, mean, carry, lay, not burn · To what, where: coals, last, discovery, hearth · Speech: someone speaks here

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, answer, coals), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 coals	det
6	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 took	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 herself	case
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 saying	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct
13	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 answer	det
14	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	nsubj
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	ccomp
16	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	15 means	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 means	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	home	home	ADV	_	19 carried	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
23	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 carried	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laid	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 hearth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hearth	det
27	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 burn	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 burn	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 burn	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 burn	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 burn	advmod
33	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	discovery	some coals		last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent coal=Theme at last=Asset
2	say speech: assert	gerund	discovery not said here		discovery			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	mean in a quote	present	no answer					tree rules
4	carry	past		coals = coal			home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	lay	past		coals = coal		the hearth		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on hearth=Destination
6	not burn	would	coals = coal					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 10, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 36