Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 90
The youth promised, and Hibich conducted him to another chamber, where stood a delicious bed of fragrant moss, wished him Gute Nacht, and promised to wake him early.
Who acts: youth, Hibich · What happens: promise, conduct, stand, wish, wake · To what, where: youth, chamber, delicious bed
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 (youth, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 conducted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 conducted | cc |
| 6 | Hibich | Hibich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 conducted | nsubj |
| 7 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 conducted | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 chamber | det |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conducted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | advmod |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bed | det |
| 16 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bed | amod |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 moss | case |
| 19 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moss | amod |
| 20 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bed | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wished | punct |
| 22 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wished | obj |
| 24 | Gute | Gute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wished | obj |
| 25 | Nacht | Nacht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Gute | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 promised | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 promised | cc |
| 28 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wake | mark |
| 30 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 promised | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 wake | obj |
| 32 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 wake | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the youth | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | conduct | past | Hibich | youth | another chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chamber=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | past | a delicious bed of fragrant moss | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wish | past | youth | Gute obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | the youth not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | wake not said to happen | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | youth | early property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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