Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 81
But Otto replied, "Want knows no law," took a cherry in his mouth and offered it to her.
Who acts: Otto · What happens: reply, want, know, take, offer · To what, where: law, cherry, mouth, Huldigunde · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 replied | cc |
| 2 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Want | punct |
| 6 | Want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knows | csubj |
| 7 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 law | det |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knows | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knows | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cherry | det |
| 14 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mouth | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 offered | cc |
| 19 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 offered | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 offered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Otto | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | no law | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | past | a cherry | Otto's mouth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cherry=Value in mouth=Location | ||||
| 5 | offer | past | law | Huldigunde | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Goal |
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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