Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 15
But he threatened her with the loss of his love if she did not tell him where she had been so long a time, and what she had seen.
Who acts: lover, Ilse · What happens: threaten, not tell, be, see, love · To what, where: Ilse, lover · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lover, Ilse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 threatened | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threatened | nsubj |
| 3 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threatened | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 loss | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 loss | det |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threatened | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 love | nmod:poss |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loss | nmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 tell | advmod |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 threatened | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 long | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 long | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 long | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 long | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seen | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 seen | cc |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 seen | obj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 seen | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 threatened | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threatened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past | lover | Ilse | with the loss of lover's love | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | Ilse | lover | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Ilse | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Ilse | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | love | lover | nom love «feeling 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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