Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 79
Thou shalt pay dearly for thy impudence, and go down more quickly than thou camest up!"
Who acts: Thou · What happens: pay, go down, come up
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 (Thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 pay | aux |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 3 pay | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 impudence | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 impudence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | impudence | impudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 go | cc |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pay | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 quickly | advmod |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 camest | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 camest | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 camest | nsubj |
| 16 | camest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 camest | compound:prt |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | shall | Thou | for thy impudence; dearly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for impudence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | Thou not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come up | past | thou | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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