Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 74
The shepherds set to work to lift out the chest, which they found tremendously heavy.
Who acts: shepherds, chest · What happens: set, work, lift out, find · To what, where: chest
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 (shepherds, chest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherds | det |
| 2 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lift | mark |
| 7 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 work | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 lift | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chest | det |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 found | nsubj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 chest | acl:relcl |
| 15 | tremendously | tremendously | ADV | _ | 16 heavy | advmod |
| 16 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | the shepherds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | the shepherds not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift out | to-infinitive | the shepherds not said here | the chest | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the chest | Shepherds = shepherd nsubj; heavy property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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