Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 49
And Stolberg desired also a work from his hand, and the master employed every means to produce a perfect bell for his place of residence.
Who acts: Stolberg, master, every · What happens: desire, employ, mean, produce · To what, where: work, hand, perfect bell
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 (Stolberg, master, every), 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 | _ | 3 desired | cc |
| 2 | Stolberg | Stolberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 desired | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 work | det |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 employed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 employed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 master | det |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | nsubj |
| 14 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | conj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 employed | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 produce | mark |
| 18 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 means | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bell | det |
| 20 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bell | amod |
| 21 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 produce | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 place | nmod:poss |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 produce | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 residence | case |
| 26 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | Stolberg | a work | Stolberg's hand | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot work=Theme | |||
| 2 | employ | past | the master | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | every | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | produce not said to happen | to-infinitive | every not said here | a perfect bell | for Stolberg's place of residence | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bell=Result for place=Beneficiary |
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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