Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 41
He had already decided in his mind to set the delinquents free without ransom, as soon as he had frightened them a little.
Who acts: Adam · What happens: decide, set, frighten, mind · To what, where: mind, delinquents, Adam
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 (Adam), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 decided | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 decided | advmod |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decided | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 set | mark |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 delinquents | det |
| 11 | delinquents | delinquent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | obj |
| 12 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 delinquents | amod |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 ransom | case |
| 14 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soon | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 set | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 frightened | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 frightened | aux |
| 21 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 soon | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 frightened | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 little | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 frightened | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect | Adam | Adam's mind | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | Adam not said here | the delinquents | without ransom; soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient delinquent=Result | |||
| 3 | frighten | past · perfect · passive | Adam | a little obl:unmarked; delinquents = delinquent obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result | ||||
| 4 | mind | Adam | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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