Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 21
Great was the Giant's joy when Brunhilda begged to ride with him.
Who acts: Great Giant joy · What happens: be, beg, ride · To what, where: Great Giant joy
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (Great Giant joy), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 joy | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joy | det |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 joy | amod |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Giant | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 begged | advmod |
| 8 | Brunhilda | Brunhilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ride | mark |
| 11 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begged | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ride | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great Giant joy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the Great Giant joy | Brunhilda nsubj | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ride not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Great Giant joy not said here | with joy | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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