Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 97
According to another tale, the Countess murdered them herself by sticking pins in their skulls.
Who acts: Countess · What happens: accord, murder, stick · To what, where: men, pins, skulls
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 (Countess), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tale | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 murdered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tale | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Countess | det |
| 7 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 murdered | nsubj |
| 8 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 murdered | obj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 murdered | obj |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 sticking | mark |
| 12 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 murdered | advcl |
| 13 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sticking | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 skulls | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skulls | nmod:poss |
| 16 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pins | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 murdered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | murder | past | the Countess | men = man | accord another tale; murderer obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stick | gerund | the Countess not said here | pins | men's skulls | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme in skull=Destination |
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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