Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 12
"Of course you will," answered Herr Neubauer, who observed closely the little men, of whose acts and deeds he had already heard so much; "but the reckoning will be large, for you have long done mischief to my property.
Who acts: Herr, reckoning, you · What happens: answer, observe, hear, be, do · To what, where: little men, mischief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herr, reckoning, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 will | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 observed | nsubj |
| 10 | Neubauer | Neubauer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Herr | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 observed | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 observed | nsubj |
| 13 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 13 observed | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 observed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 heard | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 acts | case |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 acts | nmod:poss |
| 21 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 heard | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 deeds | cc |
| 23 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 acts | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 heard | aux |
| 26 | already | already | ADV | _ | 27 heard | advmod |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 observed | conj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 heard | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 large | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 large | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 large | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 reckoning | det |
| 34 | reckoning | reckoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 large | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 large | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 large | cop |
| 37 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answered | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 done | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 done | mark |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 done | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 done | aux |
| 42 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 done | advmod |
| 43 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 large | conj |
| 44 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 done | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 property | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 property | nmod:poss |
| 47 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 done | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | future | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | observe | past | Herr | the little men | who nsubj; closely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Herr | of acts and deeds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of act=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | the reckoning | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | mischief | to my property; long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
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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