Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 9
A small garden surrounded it, in which Ernst loved to work; there he listened to the tales of his father, or hunted in the mountain forests.
Who acts: small garden, Ernst, father · What happens: surround, love, work, listen, hunt, tell · To what, where: garden, mountain forests · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (small garden, Ernst, father), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 garden | amod |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loved | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 garden | acl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surrounded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 loved | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 loved | obl |
| 9 | Ernst | Ernst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 loved | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 listened | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 listened | expl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 listened | nsubj |
| 16 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loved | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tales | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tales | det |
| 19 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 listened | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 father | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tales | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hunted | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 hunted | cc |
| 25 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 listened | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 forests | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forests | det |
| 28 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 forests | compound |
| 29 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hunted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | a small garden not said here | garden | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | past | a small garden | which obl; Ernst nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | work not said to happen | to-infinitive | a small garden not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | past | Ernst | there | to the tales of Ernst's father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | |||
| 5 | hunt | participle | Ernst not said here | the mountain forests | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 6 | tell | Ernst's father | nom tale «communication 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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