Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 19
The horse was not able to carry her home, her servant had fled, and Ernst undertook to conduct her to her father's Burg.
Who acts: horse, Ernst · What happens: not be, carry, flee, undertake, conduct · To what, where: home, servant, horse, Burg
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, Ernst), 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 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 able | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fled | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servant | nmod:poss |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fled | aux |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 able | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 undertook | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 undertook | cc |
| 17 | Ernst | Ernst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 undertook | nsubj |
| 18 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fled | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 conduct | mark |
| 20 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 undertook | xcomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 conduct | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Burg | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Burg | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 father | case |
| 26 | Burg | Burg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 conduct | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the horse | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | the horse not said here | horse's home | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flee | past · perfect · passive | horse's servant | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | undertake | past | Ernst | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | conduct | to-infinitive | Ernst not said here | horse | horse's father's Burg | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to burg=Destination |
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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