Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 62
As they reached the Hibichstein they fell into a conversation concerning its height, and the miner's son said he should like to see the person who could climb to the top.
Who acts: people, conversation, son, person · What happens: reach, fall, concern, say, like, see · To what, where: Hibichstein, conversation, height, person, top · 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 (people, conversation, son, person), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hibichstein | det |
| 5 | Hibichstein | Hibichstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 conversation | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 conversation | det |
| 10 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 conversation | acl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 height | nmod:poss |
| 13 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concerning | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 miner | det |
| 17 | miner | miner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 miner | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 like | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 like | aux |
| 23 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 like | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 person | det |
| 27 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 climb | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 climb | aux |
| 30 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 person | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 top | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 top | det |
| 33 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 climb | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | people | the Hibichstein | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hibichstein=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | people | into a conversation result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into conversation=Result | ||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | a conversation not said here | conversation's height | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus height=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the miner's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | like | should | son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | son not said here | the person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | climb | could | the person | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
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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