Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 94

"Little maiden!" thought he, "if no train of waggons comes that I prefer, I can take thee; that is not difficult, and costs no blood."

Who acts: Little maiden, train, that · What happens: think, come, prefer, take, not be, cost · To what, where: Arno, thee, blood · 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 (Little maiden, train, that), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 maiden	punct
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maiden	amod
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 maiden	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 maiden	punct
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 comes	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 train	det
12	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 waggons	case
14	waggons	waggon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 train	nmod
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 prefer	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 prefer	nsubj
18	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 take	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prefer	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 comes	parataxis
23	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 take	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 difficult	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 difficult	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 difficult	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 difficult	advmod
28	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 costs	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 costs	cc
31	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 difficult	acl:relcl
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 blood	det
33	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 costs	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 difficult	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Little maiden	Arno		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	no train of waggons			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prefer in a quote	present	Little maiden = maiden			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	take in a quote	can	Little maiden = maiden	thee		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
5	not is in a quote	present	that		difficult property	tree rules
6	cost in a quote	present		no blood		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme blood=Value

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 94