Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 75
So she told Otto she had the best garden in the world, and proposed to show it to him the next day.
Who acts: end · What happens: tell, have, propose, show · To what, where: Otto, best garden, world, garden · 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 (end), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 garden | amod |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 proposed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 proposed | cc |
| 15 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 had | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 proposed | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 show | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 show | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | end | Otto | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent otto=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | end | the best garden | the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | |||
| 3 | propose | participle | end not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | end not said here | garden | Otto | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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