Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 95
But he could not go in his every-day dress to his benefactress, and the untruthful tailor neglected to deliver the red Sunday coat as promised.
Who acts: sympathy, untruthful tailor · What happens: not go, neglect, not deliver, promise · To what, where: day dress, red Sunday coat
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 (sympathy, untruthful tailor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dress | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 every | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dress | compound |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 benefactress | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 benefactress | nmod:poss |
| 14 | benefactress | benefactress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 neglected | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 neglected | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tailor | det |
| 18 | untruthful | untruthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tailor | amod |
| 19 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 neglected | nsubj |
| 20 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 go | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 deliver | mark |
| 22 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 neglected | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coat | det |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 coat | amod |
| 25 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 coat | compound |
| 26 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deliver | obj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 promised | mark |
| 28 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 deliver | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | could | sympathy | sympathy's day dress | to sympathy's benefactress | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to benefactress=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | neglect | participle | the untruthful tailor | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not deliver | to-infinitive | the untruthful tailor not said here | the red Sunday coat | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | participle | the untruthful tailor not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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