Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 20
Arrived there, not all the entreaties of the rescued maiden could induce him to enter, but already it was difficult to tear himself away.
Who acts: entreaties · What happens: arrive, rescue, not induce, enter, be, tear away · To what, where: maiden
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 (entreaties), 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 | Arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Arrived | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 induce | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 induce | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 entreaties | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 entreaties | det |
| 7 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 induce | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 maiden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 10 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 maiden | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entreaties | nmod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 induce | aux |
| 13 | induce | induce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Arrived | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 induce | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 enter | mark |
| 16 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 induce | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 difficult | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 difficult | cc |
| 19 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 difficult | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 difficult | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 difficult | cop |
| 22 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Arrived | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 tear | mark |
| 24 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 difficult | csubj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 tear | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 tear | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rescue | participle | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not induce | could | all entreaties of the rescued maiden | maiden | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive | all entreaties of the rescued maiden not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | tear away | to-infinitive | maiden | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location himself=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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