Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 42
The bridegroom unfolded his plan, which, though unwillingly, was approved of.
Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: unfold, approve, plan · To what, where: plan
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 (bridegroom), 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 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unfolded | nsubj |
| 3 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 plan | nmod:poss |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unfolded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 which | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 plan | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 approved | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 approved | mark |
| 10 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 13 approved | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 unwillingly | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 approved | aux:pass |
| 13 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 unfolded | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 approved | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unfolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | past | the bridegroom | bridegroom's plan | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | ||||
| 2 | approve | past · passive | the bridegroom not said here | unwillingly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | plan | bridegroom | nom plan «cognition 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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