Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 51

Vexed, he threw the bell aside, commanded his sixteen-years-old apprentice to prepare everything for a new cast on a certain day, so soon as he returned, and then departed to visit his father, who was also a bell-founder, to relate his failure and ask his advice.

Who acts: Stolberg, father · What happens: vex, throw, command, prepare, return, depart · To what, where: bell, old apprentice, everything, father, bell founder, failure · 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 (Stolberg, father), 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	Vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 threw	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Vexed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bell	det
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 commanded	punct
9	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 years	nmod:poss
11	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sixteen	punct
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 apprentice	amod
16	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 commanded	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 prepare	mark
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 commanded	advcl
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 prepare	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 cast	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cast	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cast	amod
23	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prepare	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 day	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 day	det
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prepare	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 returned	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 soon	advmod
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 returned	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 returned	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 returned	nsubj
33	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 departed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 departed	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 departed	advmod
37	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 visit	mark
39	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 departed	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 visit	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 founder	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 founder	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 founder	cop
45	also	also	ADV	_	49 founder	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 founder	det
47	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 founder	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 bell	punct
49	founder	founder	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 father	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 relate	punct
51	to	to	PART	_	52 relate	mark
52	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 visit	conj
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 failure	nmod:poss
54	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 relate	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 ask	cc
56	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 relate	conj
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 advice	nmod:poss
58	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 ask	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vex	participle	Stolberg not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw	past	Stolberg	the bell		aside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme
3	command	past	Stolberg not said here	old apprentice			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent apprentice=Eventuality
4	prepare	to-infinitive	Stolberg not said here	everything	day	for a new cast	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Product for cast=Beneficiary
5	return	past	Stolberg			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	depart	past	Stolberg not said here		then		tree rules
7	visit	to-infinitive	Stolberg not said here	Stolberg's father and a bell founder			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent
8	is a	past	Stolberg's father and a bell founder	a bell founder			tree rules
9	relate	to-infinitive	Stolberg not said here	Stolberg's failure			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Theme
10	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Stolberg not said here	Stolberg's advice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
11	fail		Stolberg				nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 4, sentence 51

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 51