Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 27
And where could we have found a better companion than that fellow there, out of whose eyes the most charming simplicity and stupidity look, so that a child might deceive him?"
Who acts: we, eyes, child · What happens: find, look, deceive · To what, where: better companion, lot
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, eyes, child), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 found | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 found | aux |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 look | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 companion | det |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 companion | amod |
| 9 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 fellow | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 fellow | det |
| 12 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 companion | nmod |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 fellow | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 look | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 simplicity | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 charming | advmod |
| 21 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 simplicity | amod |
| 22 | simplicity | simplicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | appos |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stupidity | cc |
| 24 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 simplicity | conj |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 deceive | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 deceive | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 child | det |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deceive | nsubj |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 deceive | aux |
| 32 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 look | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 deceive | obj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could · perfect | we | a better companion | than that fellow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Topic | |||
| 2 | look | present | eyes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | deceive | might | a child | lot | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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