Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 69
"Come, _Mütterchen_, coffee is ready, and I have put some white roses for you, and Babette has brought mountain strawberries: come--come, Papa," and the little fellow put up his mouth for a kiss.
Who acts: you, coffee, God · What happens: come, be, put, bring, put up · To what, where: white roses, Babette, Papa, little fellow
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, coffee, God), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mütterchen | punct |
| 5 | Mütterchen | Mütterchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | vocative |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mütterchen | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ready | punct |
| 8 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | cop |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Come | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 ready | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 roses | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 roses | amod |
| 18 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 23 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Come | parataxis |
| 26 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strawberries | compound |
| 27 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brought | obj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Papa | punct |
| 33 | Papa | Papa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Papa | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 put | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fellow | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fellow | amod |
| 39 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 come | conj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 put | compound:prt |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 43 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | obj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 kiss | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 kiss | det |
| 46 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Mütterchen vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | coffee | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | present · perfect | God | some white roses | for you | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rose=Goal | |||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Babette | mountain strawberries obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination strawberry=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Papa | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location papa=Theme | ||||
| 7 | put up | participle · passive | the little fellow | for a kiss; Babette's mouth obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset mouth=Goal |
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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