Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 25
All who sat there wore golden crowns, and a silver plate was given the child to take home.
Who acts: All · What happens: sit, wear, give, take · To what, where: golden crowns, silver plate
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 (All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wore | advmod |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | advcl |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crowns | amod |
| 7 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wore | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 plate | det |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plate | compound |
| 12 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 child | acl |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 take | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | All | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | All not said here | golden crowns | there | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past · passive | a silver plate | the child obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient child=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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