Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 69
But all these tales must be only fancies, and the benevolent fairies in these mountains, who used to help the poor when they were near despair, are most likely long since gone, or else my trouble would have brought them to my relief.
Who acts: mountains, my · What happens: be, use, help, bring, trouble · To what, where: only fancies, tales, poor, near despair, trouble
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 (mountains, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 used | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 tales | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 tales | det |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 used | obl |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fancies | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fancies | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fancies | amod |
| 8 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tales | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fairies | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fairies | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fairies | det |
| 12 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fairies | amod |
| 13 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tales | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fairies | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 used | nsubj |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 used | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 poor | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 help | obj |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 despair | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 despair | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 despair | cop |
| 27 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 despair | amod |
| 28 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 long | punct |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 long | cop |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 likely | advmod |
| 32 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 33 long | advmod |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 help | advmod |
| 34 | since | since | ADP | _ | 35 gone | case |
| 35 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 long | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 brought | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 brought | cc |
| 38 | else | else | ADV | _ | 43 brought | advmod |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 40 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 brought | aux |
| 42 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 brought | aux |
| 43 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 used | conj |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 brought | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 relief | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 relief | nmod:poss |
| 47 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 brought | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | only fancies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | use | past | all tales and the benevolent fairies in this mountains | who nsubj | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | the poor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | mountains = mountain | near despair | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | since gone | likely, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bring | would · perfect · passive | my trouble | to my relief; mountains = mountain obj; else property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | trouble | my | nom trouble «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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