Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 76
It was time for the Prince to smell the apple again, and a brilliant idea came to him.
Who acts: garden, brilliant idea · What happens: be, smell, come · To what, where: time, apple, prince
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 (garden, brilliant idea), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | cop |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 smell | mark |
| 8 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 time | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 apple | det |
| 10 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smell | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 smell | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 idea | det |
| 15 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 idea | amod |
| 16 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | garden | time | for the Prince | tree rules | |||
| 2 | smell | to-infinitive | the apple | again | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a brilliant idea | prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=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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