Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 25
The dwarfs were well satisfied with this demand, but protested that they had neither money nor articles of value with them, and begged permission to go and bring the money.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: be, protest, have, beg, go, bring · To what, where: money, permission, value · 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 (dwarfs), 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 dwarfs | det |
| 2 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 satisfied | advmod |
| 5 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 demand | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 demand | det |
| 8 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 satisfied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 protested | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 protested | cc |
| 11 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 protested | ccomp |
| 15 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 money | cc:preconj |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 articles | cc |
| 18 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 money | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 value | case |
| 20 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 articles | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 value | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 begged | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 begged | cc |
| 25 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 protested | conj |
| 26 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 begged | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 permission | acl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bring | cc |
| 30 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 money | det |
| 32 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bring | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dwarfs | with this demand; satisfied, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | protest speech: disagree | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | dwarfs = dwarf | money nor articles of value with articles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | permission | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | permission not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bring | infinitive | the money | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||||
| 7 | article | value with articles | nom article «communication transitive»: of=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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