Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 61
One Sunday afternoon the forester's son, with his friend, the son of a miner, went into the wood for a walk.
Who acts: afternoon son · What happens: go · To what, where: wood
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 (afternoon son), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 afternoon | nummod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 afternoon | compound |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | compound |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forester | det |
| 5 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 forester | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 miner | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 miner | det |
| 17 | miner | miner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 walk | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 walk | det |
| 25 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the forester's afternoon son | the wood | for a walk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location |
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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