Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 101
Little did the father imagine he was thrusting his child into the wolf's den, for a worse example of a false and neglectful husband than Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel it were not easy to find.
Who acts: father, Younger · What happens: imagine, thrust, not be, find, exemplify · To what, where: child, den, false husband
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Younger), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imagine | nsubj |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thrusting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrusting | aux |
| 8 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 imagine | ccomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrusting | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 den | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 den | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 wolf | case |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrusting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 example | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 example | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 example | det |
| 19 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 example | amod |
| 20 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrusting | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 husband | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 husband | det |
| 23 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 husband | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 neglectful | cc |
| 25 | neglectful | neglectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 false | conj |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 example | nmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 Henry | case |
| 28 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 husband | nmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Younger | det |
| 30 | Younger | Younger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 easy | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Brunswick | case |
| 32 | Brunswick | Brunswick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Younger | nmod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Wolfenbüttel | punct |
| 34 | Wolfenbüttel | Wolfenbüttel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Younger | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 easy | expl |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 easy | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 easy | advmod |
| 38 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 husband | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 find | mark |
| 40 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 easy | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | past · do-support | the father | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | thrust | past · progressive | father | father's child | the wolf's den | for a worse example of a false husband than Henry | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||
| 3 | not is | past | the Younger of Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel | a false husband than Henry not said here | easy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the Younger of Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | exemplify | a false husband than Henry | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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