Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 56

He was the father of a numerous progeny, and the tower grew too small for all the children and domestics, and he often felt a wish to have a more capacious dwelling.

Who acts: Bodo, tower · What happens: be, grow, feel, have · To what, where: father, wish, capacious dwelling

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 (Bodo, tower), 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 father	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 father	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 progeny	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 progeny	det
7	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 progeny	amod
8	progeny	progeny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tower	det
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 father	conj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 small	advmod
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 children	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 children	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 small	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 domestics	cc
21	domestics	domestic	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 children	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 felt	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 felt	nsubj
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 felt	advmod
26	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wish	det
28	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 felt	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 felt	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dwelling	det
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 capacious	advmod
33	capacious	capacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dwelling	amod
34	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bodo	the father	of a numerous progeny	tree rules
2	grow	past	the tower		small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past	Bodo	a wish	often property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	Bodo not said here	a capacious dwelling		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwelling=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 56