Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 42
Schlosser was as if paralysed, and could scarcely drag himself to the village near by.
What happens: paralyse, drag · To what, where: Schlosser, village
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: 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 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 paralysed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paralysed | aux:pass |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 paralysed | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 paralysed | mark |
| 5 | paralysed | paralyse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drag | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drag | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 drag | aux |
| 9 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 10 drag | advmod |
| 10 | drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 paralysed | parataxis |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 drag | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drag | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 village | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 near | fixed |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paralysed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paralyse | past · passive | Schlosser | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drag | could | Schlosser | the village | scarcely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to village=Destination |
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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