Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 61
He caused his hands to be bound to his girdle, went with his marshal to court, and declared his wish to eat almonds.
Who acts: prince · What happens: cause, bind, go, declare, eat, wish · To what, where: hands, wish, almonds
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 caused | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bound | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bound | aux:pass |
| 7 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 caused | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 girdle | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bound | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caused | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 marshal | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 marshal | nmod:poss |
| 15 | marshal | marshal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marshal | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 declared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 declared | cc |
| 20 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caused | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wish | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 declared | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 declared | xcomp |
| 25 | almonds | almond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 eat | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | prince | prince's hands | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bind | to-infinitive · passive | prince not said here | to prince's girdle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: to girdle=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | prince not said here | with prince's marshal to court | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with marshal=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | prince not said here | prince's wish | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wish=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | prince not said here | almonds | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent almond=Patient | ||||
| 6 | wish | prince | nom wish «feeling 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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