Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 31
As soon as the dwarfs had bescribbled the rose-leaf, they handed it to him with directions to carry it to the Sachsenstein, and blow it in through one of the crevices, and a reply would speedily follow.
Who acts: dwarfs, reply · What happens: bescribbl, hand, carry, blow in, follow · To what, where: dwarfs, reflection, Adam, Sachsenstein
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, reply), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 handed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bescribbled | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dwarfs | det |
| 5 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bescribbled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bescribbled | aux |
| 7 | bescribbled | bescribbl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handed | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaf | det |
| 9 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaf | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
| 11 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bescribbled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bescribbled | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 handed | nsubj |
| 14 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 handed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 handed | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 directions | case |
| 19 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 handed | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 handed | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Sachsenstein | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sachsenstein | det |
| 25 | Sachsenstein | Sachsenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blow | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blow | cc |
| 28 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 carry | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 blow | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 blow | compound:prt |
| 31 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 blow | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 crevices | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crevices | det |
| 35 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 one | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 follow | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 follow | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 reply | det |
| 39 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 follow | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 follow | aux |
| 41 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 42 follow | advmod |
| 42 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 handed | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bescribbl | past · perfect · passive | the dwarfs | the rose leaf obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | dwarfs = dwarf | reflection | Adam | with directions; soon property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | ||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | reflection | the Sachsenstein | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sachsenstein=Destination | |||
| 4 | blow in | infinitive | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | reflection | through one of the crevices | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | follow | would | a reply | speedily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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