Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 111
Mother and children were provided with every comfort, and soon after they went to live in Aschersleben, for they could not be happy among people who had refused assistance in their need but fawned upon them now they were become rich.
Who acts: friends, people · What happens: provide, go, live, not be, refuse, fawn · To what, where: Mother, Aschersleben, assistance, friends
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 (friends, people), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 children | cc |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mother | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 provided | aux:pass |
| 5 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 comfort | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 comfort | det |
| 8 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 went | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 provided | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Aschersleben | case |
| 18 | Aschersleben | Aschersleben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happy | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 happy | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 happy | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 happy | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 happy | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 happy | cop |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 went | parataxis |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 happy | obl |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 refused | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 refused | aux |
| 30 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 people | acl:relcl |
| 31 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 refused | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 need | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 need | nmod:poss |
| 34 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 assistance | nmod |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 fawned | cc |
| 36 | fawned | fawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fawned | obl |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 become | advmod |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 become | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 become | aux:pass |
| 42 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 fawned | advcl |
| 43 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 become | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past · passive | Mother and children | with every comfort | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with comfort=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | friends = friend | soon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | Aschersleben | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in aschersleben=Location | ||||
| 4 | not is | could | friends = friend | among people; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past · perfect | people | assistance in friends's need | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fawn | past | friends = friend not said here | upon friends = friend | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | become | past · passive | friends = friend | now | rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||
| 8 | need | friends = friend | nom need «state 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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