Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 23
One day a child plucked a flower on the Petersberg near Goslar while playing.
What happens: pluck, play · To what, where: One day, Petersberg
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | nsubj |
| 5 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Petersberg | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Petersberg | det |
| 10 | Petersberg | Petersberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | obl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 Goslar | case |
| 12 | Goslar | Goslar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Petersberg | nmod |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 playing | mark |
| 14 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 plucked | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | participle · passive | One day | the Petersberg near Goslar | a child nsubj; a flower obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary flower=Theme | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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