Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 116
"Your Highness has given me a command to purchase jewels, as precious and costly as were to be found, that you might present them to the Princess of the adjoining dominions, and thereby win her hand and realm.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, purchase, find, present, adjoin · To what, where: Highness, Three kingdoms, jewels, spectacles, Princess · 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 (you), 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 given | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 command | det |
| 8 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 purchase | mark |
| 10 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | advcl |
| 11 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 purchase | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 precious | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 precious | case |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 given | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 costly | cc |
| 16 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 precious | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 precious | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 present | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 present | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 present | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 present | aux |
| 26 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | ccomp |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 present | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Princess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Princess | det |
| 30 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 present | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 dominions | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dominions | det |
| 33 | adjoining | adjoin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 dominions | amod |
| 34 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Princess | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hand | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hand | cc |
| 37 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 40 hand | advmod |
| 38 | win | win | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 precious | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 realm | cc |
| 42 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hand | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Your Highness | Three kingdoms = kingdom | a command obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | purchase in a quote | to-infinitive | jewels | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jewel=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past · passive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | present in a quote | might | you | spectacles = spectacle | the Princess of the adjoining dominions | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to princess=Recipient | |||
| 5 | adjoin in a quote | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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