Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 33
"The third time it will surely fall on the fellow," thought the stranger to himself, and began under all sorts of excuses to shuffle again.
Who acts: third time, stranger · What happens: fall, think, begin, shuffle, sort · To what, where: sorts, excuses · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (third time, stranger), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fall | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | nsubj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fall | aux |
| 7 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 8 fall | advmod |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 fellow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fellow | det |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fall | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fall | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stranger | det |
| 16 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 stranger | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 sorts | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 sorts | det |
| 24 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 began | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 excuses | case |
| 26 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sorts | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 shuffle | mark |
| 28 | shuffle | shuffle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | advcl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 shuffle | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | future | the third time | on the fellow; eldest = eld nsubj; surely property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fellow=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the stranger | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | all sorts of excuses | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | shuffle | to-infinitive | again | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sort | excuses | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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