Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 60

In the forester's house in Grund lived in the olden days a forester who had lost his wife early, and had an only son, a good-hearted youth, only somewhat over-inquisitive and indiscreet.

Who acts: forester · What happens: live, lose, have · To what, where: house, wife, only son

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 (forester), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forester	det
3	forester	forester	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 forester	case
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Grund	case
7	Grund	Grund	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 forester	det
14	forester	forester	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 days	appos
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lost	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lost	aux
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 forester	acl:relcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	obj
20	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 lost	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 son	det
25	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 son	amod
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 youth	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 youth	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 youth	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 good	punct
31	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 youth	amod
32	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 son	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 over-inquisitive	punct
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 over-inquisitive	advmod
35	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	36 over-inquisitive	advmod
36	over-inquisitive	over-inquisitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 youth	appos
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 indiscreet	cc
38	indiscreet	indiscreet	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 over-inquisitive	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past			the forester's house in Grund	day		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	lose	past · perfect	a forester	man's wife			early property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
3	have	past		a only son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 60