Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 73
Then she dropped her handkerchief; but Otto lifted it with the toe of his boot, and swung it carelessly to and fro, and she stooped and took it from his boot.
Who acts: Huldigunde, Otto · What happens: drop, lift, swing, fro, stoop, take · To what, where: handkerchief, boot
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dropped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lifted | cc |
| 8 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lifted | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 toe | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 toe | det |
| 13 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 boot | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 toe | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swung | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swung | cc |
| 19 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 swung | obj |
| 21 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 19 swung | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 carelessly | fixed |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fro | cc |
| 24 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 swung | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stooped | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stooped | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stooped | nsubj |
| 28 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 took | cc |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stooped | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 boot | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 boot | nmod:poss |
| 34 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Huldigunde | Huldigunde's handkerchief | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | |||
| 2 | lift | past | Otto | handkerchief | with the toe of Otto's boot | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | swing | past | handkerchief | carelessly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stoop | past | Huldigunde | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | take | past | Huldigunde not said here | handkerchief | Otto's boot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=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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