Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 124
The treasurer went joyfully home, dreaming of princely honours, for had he not still a greater part of the stone in his possession?
Who acts: treasurer · What happens: go, dream, have, possess · To what, where: treasurer, possession
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 (treasurer), 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 treasurer | det |
| 2 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 5 home | advmod |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreaming | punct |
| 7 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 honours | case |
| 9 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 honours | amod |
| 10 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dreaming | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 had | case |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 part | advmod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 part | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 part | det |
| 18 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 part | amod |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stone | det |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 possession | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 possession | nmod:poss |
| 25 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the treasurer | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dream | gerund | the treasurer not said here | of princely honours | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the treasurer not said here | treasurer | treasurer's possession | a greater part of the stone obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | possess | treasurer | nom possession «act 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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