Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 110
This stone a giant is said to have thrown out of his shoe.
What happens: say, throw · To what, where: stone, shoe · 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 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stone | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 thrown | mark |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thrown | aux |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shoe | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shoe | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | this stone a giant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive · perfect | Ilfeld's shoe | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out shoe=Initial_Location |
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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