Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 59
A friendly fairy had given him an apple, which he was to smell once a year, when a prudent idea should occur to him.
Who acts: prince, prudent idea · What happens: give, be, occur · To what, where: friendly fairy, prince
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 (prince, prudent idea), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fairy | det |
| 2 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairy | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smell | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 smell | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smell | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 smell | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 smell | mark |
| 14 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 apple | parataxis |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 smell | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 once | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 occur | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 occur | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 idea | det |
| 21 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 idea | amod |
| 22 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 occur | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 occur | aux |
| 24 | occur | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 smell | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 occur | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | a friendly fairy | prince | a apple obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | prince | a apple obj; once, smell property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | occur | should | a prudent idea | prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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