Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 67
Prince Otto only shrugged his shoulder, and replied, "Only when you graciously condescend to take something from my boots."
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: shrug, reply, condescend, take · To what, where: shoulder, something, boots · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shrugged | nsubj |
| 2 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 shrugged | advmod |
| 4 | shrugged | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shrugged | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 replied | cc |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shrugged | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 condescend | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 condescend | punct |
| 12 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 16 condescend | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 condescend | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 condescend | nsubj |
| 15 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 16 condescend | advmod |
| 16 | condescend | condescend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrugged | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 condescend | xcomp |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 boots | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 boots | nmod:poss |
| 22 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shrugged | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shrugged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrug | past | Prince | prince's shoulder | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | Prince not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | condescend in a quote | present | you | graciously property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | my boots | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from boot=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.
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