Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 12
At length the unhappy man consented to the proposals.
What happens: consent · To what, where: unhappy man, length
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | appos |
| 6 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 proposals | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 proposals | det |
| 9 | proposals | proposal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 consented | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | the unhappy man not said here | to the proposals | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to proposal=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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