Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 65
But the other shook his head, and told him not to forget he had to come down.
Who acts: other, son · What happens: shake, tell, not forget, have, come down · To what, where: head, son · 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 (other, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 shook | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 other | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 forget | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 forget | mark |
| 13 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | ccomp |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forget | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the other | son's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the other not said here | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not forget not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | son | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come down | to-infinitive | son not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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