Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 55
When she lifted the basket to put it on her back, she found it much heavier than the cones had ever been before.
Who acts: Grund · What happens: lift, put, find, have, be · To what, where: basket, back
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 basket | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heavier | nsubj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 heavier | advmod |
| 17 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 found | ccomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 cones | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cones | det |
| 20 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 heavier | obl |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heavier | advcl |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 before | advmod |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 before | cop |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 had | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Grund | the basket | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | Grund not said here | basket | Grund's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | find | past | Grund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Grund not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | participle | ever | before property | tree rules |
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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