Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 37
This she repeated several times, but the coals, once thrown on the hearth refused to burn.
Who acts: This, coals · What happens: repeat, throw, refuse, not burn · To what, where: coals, hearth
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 repeated | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 repeated | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 refused | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 refused | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coals | det |
| 9 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 refused | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thrown | punct |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 thrown | advmod |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 coals | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 hearth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hearth | det |
| 15 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thrown | obl |
| 16 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeated | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 burn | mark |
| 18 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 refused | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | This | time | answer nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | throw | participle | the coals not said here | the hearth | once property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on hearth=Destination | |||
| 3 | refuse | past | the coals | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not burn | to-infinitive | the coals not said here | 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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