Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 57
Then she told him what had happened, and the Dwarf-King revealed to her that his people had done it, and added the cones were pure silver.
Who acts: Grund, Dwarf King, people, cones · What happens: tell, happen, reveal, do, add, be · To what, where: king, Grund, basket, pure silver · 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, Dwarf King, people, cones), 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 revealed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 revealed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 11 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dwarf | punct |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 revealed | nsubj |
| 14 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 revealed | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 people | nmod:poss |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 done | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 revealed | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 added | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 added | cc |
| 25 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cones | det |
| 27 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 silver | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 silver | cop |
| 29 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 silver | amod |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 added | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Grund | king | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reveal | past | the Dwarf King | Grund | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | king's people | basket | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | past | Grund not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | the cones | pure silver | 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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