Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 13
She demanded her return, which her fairy Majesty granted, but threatened her with destruction, should she ever reveal to mortal what she had seen.
Who acts: Ilse, fairy · What happens: demand, grant, threaten, reveal, mortal, see · To what, where: return, Ilse
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilse, fairy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 return | nmod:poss |
| 4 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demanded | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 granted | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 granted | obj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fairy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 granted | nsubj |
| 9 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fairy | appos |
| 10 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 return | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threatened | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 threatened | cc |
| 13 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 demanded | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threatened | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 destruction | case |
| 16 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threatened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reveal | punct |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 reveal | aux |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reveal | nsubj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 reveal | advmod |
| 21 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 demanded | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 mortal | case |
| 23 | mortal | mortal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 reveal | xcomp |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 seen | obj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 mortal | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | Ilse | Ilse's return | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | grant | past | Ilse's fairy | Ilse's return | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | threaten | past | Ilse not said here | Ilse | with destruction | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | reveal | should | Ilse | ever | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mortal | infinitive | Ilse not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | Ilse | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | return | Ilse | 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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