Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 36
In the cave dwelt in earlier times three dwarfs, who often lent the people of Lautenthal money, and also gold and silver plate for weddings and baptisms.
Who acts: three dwarfs · What happens: dwell, lend · To what, where: cave, people
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 (three dwarfs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cave | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cave | det |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cave | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dwarfs | nummod |
| 9 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 times | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lent | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lent | nsubj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 lent | advmod |
| 13 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dwarfs | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lent | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 17 | Lautenthal | Lautenthal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 money | compound |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gold | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gold | cc |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 gold | advmod |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cave | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 plate | cc |
| 24 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plate | compound |
| 25 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gold | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 weddings | case |
| 27 | weddings | wedding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 plate | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 baptisms | cc |
| 29 | baptisms | baptism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 weddings | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | participle | the cave and gold and silver plate for weddings and baptisms not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lend | past | three dwarfs | the people of Lautenthal money | often property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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