Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 107
The stranger soon found himself comfortable, and Herr Adam took so much pleasure in his guest that he became confidential by the first glass, and speedily related to him his losses in the fields with all particulars.
Who acts: stranger, Herr · What happens: find, take, become · To what, where: stranger, much pleasure
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, Herr), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 9 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 10 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Herr | flat |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pleasure | amod |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 guest | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 guest | nmod:poss |
| 17 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 became | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | advcl |
| 21 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 glass | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 glass | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 glass | amod |
| 25 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 confidential | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 related | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 related | cc |
| 28 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 29 related | advmod |
| 29 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 took | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 related | obl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 losses | nmod:poss |
| 33 | losses | loss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 related | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 fields | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fields | det |
| 36 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 related | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 particulars | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 particulars | det |
| 39 | particulars | particular | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fields | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the stranger | stranger | comfortable, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | past | Herr | much pleasure | in stranger's guest | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in guest=Location | |||
| 3 | become | past | stranger | confidential property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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