Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 93
"What, did I say a hundred Thaler?" replied the Jew, for he thought the apparent anger of the seller had another cause. "
Who acts: Jew, much, apparent anger, seller · What happens: say, reply, think, have, anger · To what, where: hundred Thaler, cause · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jew, much, apparent anger, seller), 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 | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hundred | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Thaler | nummod |
| 9 | Thaler | thaler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Jew | det |
| 14 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 anger | det |
| 20 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 anger | amod |
| 21 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 seller | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seller | det |
| 24 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anger | nmod |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 cause | det |
| 27 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | the Jew = jew | hundred Thaler | What obj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme thaler=Manner | |||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | the Jew | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | much | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the apparent anger of the seller | another cause | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | ||||
| 5 | anger | the seller | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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