Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 51
Once a miner's wife, whose husband had long lain ill, went from Grund into the wood to gather cones for the baker, who gave her bread for them.
Who acts: baker · What happens: lie, go, gather, give · To what, where: husband, Grund, cones, bread
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 (baker), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 miner | det |
| 3 | miner | miner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 miner | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lain | punct |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lain | aux |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 lain | advmod |
| 11 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wife | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lain | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Grund | case |
| 16 | Grund | Grund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 gather | mark |
| 21 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 22 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gather | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 baker | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 baker | det |
| 25 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gather | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 baker | acl:relcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | iobj |
| 30 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bread | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · perfect · passive | husband | ill, long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Grund | once a miner's wife; into the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from grund=Initial_Location into wood=Destination | ||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | cones | for the baker | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cone=Theme for baker=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the baker | bread | Grund | for cones = cone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bread=Theme for they=Asset |
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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