Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 11
This dog is said to have been her lap-dog before the curse.
What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: dog, lap dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | xcomp |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 dog | cop |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 lap | punct |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 curse | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 curse | det |
| 14 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | this dog | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | before the curse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | dog's lap dog | dog nmod:poss | 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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