Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 104
"Well," said Levi, after having put his spectacles again on his nose, and examining the stone carefully, "if I am to give my honest opinion, it is worth three kingdoms."
Who acts: Levi, stone, my · What happens: say, put, examine, give, be, opine · To what, where: spectacles, nose, stone, honest opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Levi, stone, my), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Levi | Levi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 put | aux |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 nose | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nose | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 examining | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 examining | cc |
| 19 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 examining | obj |
| 22 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 19 examining | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 kingdoms | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 worth | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 am | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 am | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 worth | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 give | mark |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 am | xcomp |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 31 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 opinion | amod |
| 32 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 am | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 worth | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 worth | cop |
| 36 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 kingdoms | amod |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 kingdoms | nummod |
| 38 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 examining | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Levi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | gerund · perfect | Levi not said here | Levi's spectacles | Levi's nose | again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme on nose=Destination | ||
| 3 | examine | gerund | Levi not said here | the stone | worth three kingdoms obl; carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | stone not said here | my honest opinion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | stone | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | opine in a quote | my | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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