Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 6

The first half of the third year passed happily, but in the last half the eldest brother grew impatient, and asked: "Why should we remain here any longer?"

Who acts: first half, we · What happens: pass, grow, ask, remain · To what, where: third year · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (first half, we), 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	3 half	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 half	amod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 grew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 half	nmod
8	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 year	acl
9	happily	happily	ADV	_	8 passed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 grew	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 last	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 last	det
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	nsubj
15	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	18 brother	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brother	det
17	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 brother	amod
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 last	obl:unmarked
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grew	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 remain	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 remain	punct
26	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 remain	advmod
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 remain	aux
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 remain	nsubj
29	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 asked	ccomp
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 remain	advmod
31	any	any	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 remain	advmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 remain	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 remain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		the third year not said here		happily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the first half of the third year			impatient property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the first half of the third year not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	remain in a quote	should	we		here	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 6