Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 170

Then they entered the hut of a poor man in Dorf Osterhagen, who had a wife and eight children, and challenged him, with brilliant promises, to follow them into the cave.

Who acts: lots, poor man · What happens: enter, have, challenge, follow · To what, where: hut, wife, cave, lots

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lots, poor man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 entered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hut	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Dorf	case
11	Dorf	Dorf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
12	Osterhagen	Osterhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Dorf	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wife	det
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 children	cc
19	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 children	nummod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wife	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 challenged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 challenged	cc
23	challenged	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 challenged	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 promises	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 promises	case
27	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 promises	amod
28	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 challenged	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 follow	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 follow	mark
31	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	parataxis
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 follow	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 cave	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cave	det
35	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 follow	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	lots = lot	the hut of a poor man in Dorf		then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
2	have	past	a poor man in Dorf	a wife and eight children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	challenge	past	lots = lot not said here	cave			with brilliant promises	tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive		lots = lot	the cave			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into cave=Trajectory

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 3, sentence 170

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 170