Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 73
They had the most skilful ladders, which they placed one on the other, and now they held together as if they had been glued.
Who acts: dwarfs, skilful ladders · What happens: have, place, hold together, glue · To what, where: skilful ladders, one, other, dwarfs
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 (dwarfs, skilful ladders), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ladders | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 skilful | advmod |
| 5 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ladders | amod |
| 6 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ladders | acl:relcl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 placed | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 other | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 held | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 held | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 held | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 held | nsubj |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 held | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 glued | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 glued | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 glued | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 glued | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 glued | aux:pass |
| 26 | glued | glue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 held | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | dwarfs = dwarf | the skilful ladders | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | past | the skilful ladders | one | the other | dwarfs = dwarf nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on other=Destination | ||
| 3 | hold together | past | dwarfs = dwarf | now | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | glue | past · perfect · passive | dwarfs = dwarf | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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