Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 34
But alas! the trees and land came into the hands of an owner who held the story of the three wood-fairies for a fable, and he cut the trees down.
Who acts: alas, owner, form · What happens: come, hold, cut down · To what, where: hands, story, trees
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alas, owner, form), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 2 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 trees | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trees | det |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 alas | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 land | cc |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trees | conj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hands | det |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 owner | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 owner | det |
| 14 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 owner | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fairies | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fairies | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 fairies | nummod |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fairies | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 wood | punct |
| 24 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 story | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 fable | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fable | det |
| 27 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fairies | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cut | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cut | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 cut | nsubj |
| 31 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 trees | det |
| 33 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 cut | obj |
| 34 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 cut | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | alas | the hands of a owner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | a owner | the story of the three wood fairies for a fable | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut down | past | form | the trees | down property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |
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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