Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 130

I will disguise myself as an old woman, a seller of lace; thus I can gain admittance everywhere.

Who acts: I · What happens: disguise, gain · To what, where: myself, admittance

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 disguise	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 disguise	aux
3	disguise	disguise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 disguise	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 woman	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disguise	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seller	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 seller	det
11	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 lace	case
13	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seller	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 gain	punct
15	thus	thus	ADV	_	18 gain	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 gain	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 gain	aux
18	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 disguise	conj
19	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gain	obj
20	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 gain	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 disguise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disguise	future	I	myself				as a old woman	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Destination
2	gain	can	I	admittance				everywhere, thus property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admittance=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 130

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 130