Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 9
"Ah!" replied one of the little creatures, "we are poor dwarfs, who house there in the Sachsenstein, and never do anybody any harm.
Who acts: we, poor dwarfs · What happens: reply, be, house, not do · To what, where: one, poor dwarfs, Sachsenstein, anybody · 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 (we, poor 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 creatures | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 creatures | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creatures | amod |
| 10 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dwarfs | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dwarfs | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 dwarfs | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dwarfs | cop |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dwarfs | amod |
| 16 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 replied | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 house | nsubj |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwarfs | appos |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 house | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Sachsenstein | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sachsenstein | det |
| 23 | Sachsenstein | Sachsenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 do | cc |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 do | advmod |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | advcl |
| 28 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 harm | det |
| 30 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | one of the little creatures | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | we | poor dwarfs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | house in a quote | poor dwarfs | the Sachsenstein; there | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | present | anybody | any harm obj | tree rules |
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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