Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 72
She tried daily to beguile him into setting a hand free with offerings of fruit, flowers, even her bracelet, but Otto nodded to his marshal, who received them.
Who acts: Huldigunde, Otto, marshal · What happens: try, beguile, set, nod, receive, offer · To what, where: Otto, hand, marshal, flowers, fruit
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 (Huldigunde, Otto, marshal), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 2 tried | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 beguile | mark |
| 5 | beguile | beguile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beguile | obj |
| 7 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 8 setting | mark |
| 8 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 beguile | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 setting | obj |
| 11 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 setting | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 offerings | case |
| 13 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 setting | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fruit | case |
| 15 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offerings | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flowers | punct |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fruit | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bracelet | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 bracelet | advmod |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bracelet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bracelet | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowers | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nodded | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 nodded | cc |
| 24 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 nodded | nsubj |
| 25 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 marshal | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 marshal | nmod:poss |
| 28 | marshal | marshal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nodded | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 received | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 received | nsubj |
| 31 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 marshal | acl:relcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 received | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Huldigunde | daily property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | beguile not said to happen | to-infinitive | Huldigunde not said here | Otto | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | set | gerund | Huldigunde not said here | a hand | with offerings of fruit and flowers and Huldigunde's bracelet; free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with offering=Instrument | |||
| 4 | nod | past | Otto | Otto's marshal | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to marshal=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | receive | past | Otto's marshal | flowers = flower | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | offer | fruit and flowers and Huldigunde's bracelet | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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