Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 3
She told him she would return the next morning, at first in the same form which he now saw, after which she would become a serpent.
Who acts: She, shepherd · What happens: tell, return, see, become · To what, where: shepherd, same form, serpent · 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: who acts (She, shepherd), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 return | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 return | aux |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morning | amod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 form | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 first | case |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 form | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 form | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 form | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 form | amod |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 saw | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 saw | advmod |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 form | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 become | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 become | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 become | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 become | aux |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 saw | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 serpent | det |
| 28 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 become | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | She | shepherd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return | would | she | the same form | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | shepherd | the same form | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | become | would | she | a serpent | which obl | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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