Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 62
The funeral followed as had been commanded, but the coffin contained only a wooden doll.
Who acts: funeral, coffin · What happens: follow, command, contain · To what, where: wooden doll · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funeral, coffin), 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 funeral | det |
| 2 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 commanded | mark |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 commanded | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 commanded | aux:pass |
| 7 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 followed | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 contained | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 contained | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coffin | det |
| 11 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contained | nsubj |
| 12 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 doll | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 doll | det |
| 15 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 doll | amod |
| 16 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contained | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the funeral | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | command | past · perfect · passive | the funeral not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate» | |||||
| 3 | contain | past | the coffin | a wooden doll | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot doll=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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