Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 17
On his return, however, the foot was so swollen, that the boot had to be cut off.
Who acts: foot, boot, boar · What happens: be, have, cut off, return · To what, where: return
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, boot, boar), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swollen | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 swollen | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foot | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swollen | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swollen | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 swollen | advmod |
| 11 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boot | det |
| 15 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swollen | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cut | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cut | aux:pass |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 had | xcomp |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 cut | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swollen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the foot | boar's return | however, swollen property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | the boot | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut off | to-infinitive · passive | the boot not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» | |||||
| 4 | return | boar | 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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