Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 30
Look at this beautiful Prayer Book in gold and precious stones, and the Bible[1] with my name in gold on its cover," she continued, pointing to a small table where they lay.
Who acts: you, Book, gold, my · What happens: look, continue, point, lay, name · To what, where: Bible, beautiful Prayer Book, small table, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Book, gold, my), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Book | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Book | nsubj |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Book | amod |
| 5 | Prayer | Prayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Book | compound |
| 6 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stones | cc |
| 10 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stones | amod |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gold | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bible | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Bible | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bible | det |
| 15 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 1 | punct |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Bible | flat |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 1 | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 cover | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cover | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 continued | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 continued | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 continued | nsubj |
| 30 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pointing | punct |
| 32 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 continued | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 table | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 table | det |
| 35 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 table | amod |
| 36 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pointing | obl |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 lay | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lay | nsubj |
| 39 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 table | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | the Bible | beautiful Prayer Book this | in gold and precious stones; with my name in gold; on name's cover | tree rules | ||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | Book | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | point in a quote | gerund | Book not said here | a small table | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to table=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lay in a quote | present | gold | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | name | my | gold | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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