Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 68
A farmer concealed a handsome colt in a cave in the Steigethal, or valley of the Steige, and fed it with great care.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: conceal, feed · To what, where: handsome colt, cave, Colt
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 (farmer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 concealed | nsubj |
| 3 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 colt | det |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colt | amod |
| 6 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 concealed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 concealed | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Steigethal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Steigethal | det |
| 12 | Steigethal | Steigethal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cave | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 valley | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 valley | cc |
| 15 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 concealed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Steige | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Steige | det |
| 18 | Steige | Steige | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 valley | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fed | cc |
| 21 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 concealed | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fed | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 care | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 care | amod |
| 25 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past | a farmer | a handsome colt | a cave in the Steigethal | valley of the Steige obl | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent colt=Patient in cave=Location | ||
| 2 | feed | past | a farmer not said here | Colt | with great care | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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