Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 60
Just at the time when he first saw Huldigunde, it was time to smell the apple; he smelt, and it occurred to him that if he would win the game through give and take, he must neither give himself nor take anything from her.
Who acts: prince, idea · What happens: see, be, smell, smelt, occur, win · To what, where: Huldigunde, time, apple, prince, game, anything
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, 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 give | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 saw | advmod |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Huldigunde | Huldigunde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 time | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | cop |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Huldigunde | appos |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 smell | mark |
| 15 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apple | det |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smell | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 smelt | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smelt | nsubj |
| 20 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 occurred | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 occurred | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 occurred | nsubj |
| 24 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 smelt | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 occurred | obl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 win | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 win | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 win | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 win | aux |
| 31 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 occurred | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 game | det |
| 33 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 win | obj |
| 34 | through | through | ADV | _ | 35 give | advmod |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 win | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 take | cc |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 give | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 give | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 give | aux |
| 41 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 42 give | advmod |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 give | iobj |
| 44 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 45 take | cc |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 give | conj |
| 46 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 take | obj |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 take | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | prince | Huldigunde | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer huldigunde=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | idea | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smell | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the apple | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | smelt | past | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | occur | past | idea | prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | win a condition, not said to happen | would | prince | the game | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | give | infinitive | prince not said here | through property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | take | infinitive | prince not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | give | must | prince | prince | time | neither property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 10 | take | infinitive | prince not said here | anything | from Huldigunde | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from she=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/60/