Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 119
Sadly they shake their tops, As if they knew of the robbery."
Who acts: Franks · What happens: shake, know · To what, where: tops
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: who acts (Franks), 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 | Sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 3 shake | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shake | nsubj |
| 3 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tops | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shake | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 7 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shake | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 robbery | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 robbery | det |
| 13 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shake | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | Franks = frank | Franks's tops | sadly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent top=Patient | |||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | Franks = frank | of the robbery | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of robbery=Stimulus |
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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