Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 77
As they entered the garden, Otto exclaimed, "It is wonderfully beautiful here; and in order that we may accompany each other without any disturbing element, I pray my Princess to adopt the etiquette of my court, and permit her hands to be bound one hour; then we shall both be secure, and nothing disagreeable can happen to either of us."
Who acts: wooers, Otto, garden, we, nothing disagreeable · What happens: enter, exclaim, be, accompany, pray, adopt · To what, where: garden, order, each, Princess, etiquette, hands · 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 (wooers, Otto, garden, we), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 7 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 order | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 order | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 order | case |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 accompany | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 accompany | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 accompany | aux |
| 23 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 order | acl |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 23 accompany | obj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 element | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 element | det |
| 28 | disturbing | disturbing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 element | amod |
| 29 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accompany | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pray | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 pray | nsubj |
| 32 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pray | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 adopt | mark |
| 36 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 pray | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 etiquette | det |
| 38 | etiquette | etiquette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 adopt | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 court | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 court | nmod:poss |
| 41 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 etiquette | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 permit | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 permit | cc |
| 44 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 adopt | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 hands | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 permit | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 bound | mark |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 bound | aux:pass |
| 49 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 permit | advcl |
| 50 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 hour | nummod |
| 51 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bound | obl:unmarked |
| 52 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 secure | punct |
| 53 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 58 secure | advmod |
| 54 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 secure | nsubj |
| 55 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 secure | aux |
| 56 | both | both | ADV | _ | 58 secure | advmod |
| 57 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 secure | cop |
| 58 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 happen | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 happen | cc |
| 61 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 62 disagreeable | compound |
| 62 | disagreeable | disagreeable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 happen | nsubj |
| 63 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 64 happen | aux |
| 64 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 65 | to | to | ADP | _ | 66 either | case |
| 66 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 64 happen | obl |
| 67 | of | of | ADP | _ | 68 us | case |
| 68 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 66 either | nmod |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 64 happen | punct |
| 70 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | wooers = wooer | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Otto | order | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | garden | here | beautiful, wonderfully property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | accompany in a quote | may | we | each | without any disturbing element | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | |||
| 5 | pray in a quote | present | Otto | my Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | adopt in a quote | to-infinitive | Otto not said here | the etiquette of my court | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent etiquette=Theme | ||||
| 7 | permit in a quote | infinitive | Otto not said here | Princess's hands | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bind in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | Otto not said here | hour | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 9 | is in a quote | shall | we | then | both, secure property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | happen in a quote | can | nothing disagreeable | to either of us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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