Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 15
You knocked them off our heads with the willow rod, and then we became visible.
Who acts: You, we · What happens: knock off, become · To what, where: dwarfs
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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 knocked | nsubj |
| 2 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knocked | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 knocked | compound:prt |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knocked | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rod | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rod | det |
| 9 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rod | compound |
| 10 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knocked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 became | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knocked | conj |
| 16 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock off | past | You | dwarfs = dwarf | with the willow rod; our heads obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | we | then | visible 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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