Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 121
The Princess will bestow her hand upon your Highness, and I only ask in payment a few towns and villages, and a thousand acres of forest, and a thousand acres of arable land.
Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: bestow, ask · To what, where: hand, thousand acres, payment
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 (Princess, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bestow | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bestow | aux |
| 4 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bestow | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Highness | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bestow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 ask | advmod |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bestow | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 payment | case |
| 16 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 towns | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 towns | amod |
| 19 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 payment | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 villages | cc |
| 21 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 towns | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 acres | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 acres | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thousand | det |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 acres | nummod |
| 26 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ask | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 acres | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 acres | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 acres | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 thousand | det |
| 32 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 acres | nummod |
| 33 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ask | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 land | case |
| 35 | arable | arable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 land | amod |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 acres | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bestow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | future | the Princess | Princess's hand | upon your Highness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | I | thousand acres of forest | payment a few towns and villages | thousand acres of arable land obl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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