Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 13
Can any one offer advice as to what is to be done?"
What happens: any, do · To what, where: one offer advice
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: 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 any | aux |
| 2 | any | any | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 advice | nummod |
| 4 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advice | compound |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 any | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 done | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 any | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 any | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 any | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | any | can | one offer advice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present · passive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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