Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 41
If she would only break the enchantment, and set me free, I would lead an honest, truthful life.
Who acts: Ilse, I · What happens: break, set, lead · To what, where: enchantment, me, honest truthful life
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, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 break | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 break | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 break | advmod |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lead | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 enchantment | det |
| 7 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 break | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 set | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lead | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lead | aux |
| 16 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 life | det |
| 18 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 honest | punct |
| 20 | truthful | truthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lead | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break a condition, not said to happen | would | Ilse | the enchantment | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Ilse not said here | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | |||
| 3 | lead | would | I | a honest truthful life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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