Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 95
The two friends were speechless with astonishment; Bergmann, however, answered, "How could you make us such an offer?
Who acts: two friends, Bergmann, you · What happens: be, answer, make · To what, where: us · 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 (two friends, Bergmann, you), 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 | 3 friends | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 friends | nummod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 speechless | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speechless | cop |
| 5 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 astonishment | case |
| 7 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speechless | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 9 | Bergmann | Bergmann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bergmann | punct |
| 11 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 answered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 however | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speechless | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 16 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 make | advmod |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 offer | det:predet |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 offer | det |
| 23 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | xcomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 speechless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the two friends | with astonishment; speechless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: ask | past | Bergmann | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | could | you | us | such offer xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Product |
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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