Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 56
Returning to the spot where the King had first met her, he asked her if she had found cones.
Who acts: king, Grund · What happens: return, meet, ask, find · To what, where: Grund, cones
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 (king, 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 | Returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 spot | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spot | det |
| 4 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Returning | obl |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 met | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | aux |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 met | advmod |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 spot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Returning | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 found | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | aux |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | advcl |
| 20 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | king not said here | to the spot result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to spot=Result | ||||
| 2 | meet | past · perfect | the King | Grund | first property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king | Grund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Grund | cones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Topic |
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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