Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 123
Baron von Stammnitz had studied English, and began at once to edify May by airing it.
What happens: study, begin, edify, air · To what, where: Baron, smattering
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 studied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 1 Baron | flat |
| 3 | Stammnitz | Stammnitz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Baron | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 studied | aux |
| 5 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 studied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 studied | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 began | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 edify | mark |
| 13 | edify | edify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 14 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 edify | obj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 airing | mark |
| 16 | airing | air | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 edify | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 airing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | past · perfect · passive | Baron | English obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme english=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | edify | to-infinitive | may | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | air | gerund | smattering | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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