Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 109
The new pupils in the high school at Ilfeld must also, as a joke, creep through the Needle's Eye.
What happens: creep · To what, where: Eye
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 pupils | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pupils | amod |
| 3 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 joke | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 school | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 school | amod |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pupils | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Ilfeld | case |
| 9 | Ilfeld | Ilfeld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 school | nmod |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 joke | aux |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 joke | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 also | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 joke | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 joke | det |
| 15 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 creep | punct |
| 17 | creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 joke | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 Eye | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Needle | det |
| 20 | Needle | Needle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Eye | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Needle | case |
| 22 | Eye | Eye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 creep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | present | the Needle's Eye | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through eye=Trajectory |
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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