Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 66
Finally, when his joy had cooled, the forester's son decided to descend, but could not leave the spot, for the Dwarf-King Hibich held him enchanted to the rock for his presumption.
Who acts: son, Hibich · What happens: cool, decide, descend, not leave, hold, enchant · To what, where: joy, spot, 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 (son, Hibich), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 7 cooled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 cooled | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 joy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooled | aux |
| 7 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooled | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forester | det |
| 10 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 forester | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decided | nsubj |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooled | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 descend | mark |
| 15 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 leave | advmod |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cooled | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 held | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 held | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Hibich | det |
| 26 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 King | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Dwarf | punct |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Hibich | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Hibich | Hibich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 held | nsubj |
| 30 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 held | obj |
| 32 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 held | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 rock | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rock | det |
| 35 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 enchanted | obl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 presumption | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 presumption | nmod:poss |
| 38 | presumption | presumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rock | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | past · perfect · passive | son's joy | finally property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | the forester's son | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | descend not said to happen | to-infinitive | the forester's son not said here | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not leave | could | the spot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hold | past | the Hibich Dwarf King | son | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enchant | participle | the Hibich Dwarf King not said here | to the rock for son's presumption | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | joy | son | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | presume | son | nom presumption «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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