Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 3
"Certainly!" echoed the town clerk.
What happens: echo · To what, where: town clerk
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 echoed | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 echoed | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 echoed | punct |
| 5 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clerk | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clerk | compound |
| 8 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 echoed | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 echoed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | echo | past | the town clerk | certainly property | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clerk=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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