Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 53
Then she told him all her want and distress, whereupon he gave her a plant to cure her husband, and pointed out to her a spot where she would find plenty of cones.
Who acts: Grund, Hibich · What happens: tell, give, cure, point out, find, want · To what, where: Hibich, plant, Grund, husband, spot, plenty · 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 (Grund, Hibich), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 want | det:predet |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 want | nmod:poss |
| 7 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 distress | cc |
| 9 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 gave | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cure | mark |
| 18 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gave | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cure | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pointed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pointed | cc |
| 23 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | parataxis |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 pointed | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pointed | obl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 spot | det |
| 28 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pointed | obj |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 find | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 find | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 find | aux |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 spot | acl:relcl |
| 33 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 find | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 cones | case |
| 35 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 plenty | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Grund | Hibich | then | Grund's want and distress ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | give | past | Hibich | a plant | Grund | whereupon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient plant=Theme | ||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | Hibich not said here | Grund's husband | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer husband=Source | ||||
| 4 | point out | participle | a spot | Grund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spot=Theme to she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | find | would | Grund | plenty of cones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic | ||||
| 6 | want | Grund | nom want «state transitive»: poss=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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