Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 58

I shall return your presents, which I should never have accepted, and go back to my uncle's little castle."

Who acts: I · What happens: return, not accept, go back · To what, where: presents

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 return	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 return	aux
3	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 presents	nmod:poss
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 return	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 accepted	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 accepted	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 accepted	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 accepted	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 accepted	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 accepted	aux
12	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 presents	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 return	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	22 castle	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 uncle	nmod:poss
19	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 castle	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 uncle	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 castle	amod
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 back	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	return	shall	I	your presents	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme
2	not accept	should · perfect	I	your presents	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	go back	infinitive	I not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 58