Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 92
If thou dost follow when she beckons, she will draw thee into an open grave with ice-cold arms.
Who acts: thou, guard · What happens: do, follow, beckon, draw · To what, where: thee, open grave
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: who acts (thou, guard), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 dost | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 dost | nsubj |
| 3 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 draw | advcl |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dost | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 beckons | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beckons | nsubj |
| 7 | beckons | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dost | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 draw | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 draw | aux |
| 11 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 draw | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 grave | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 grave | det |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grave | amod |
| 16 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 draw | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 arms | case |
| 18 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arms | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ice | punct |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 arms | amod |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grave | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | infinitive | thou not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beckon | present | guard | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | draw | future | guard | thee | into a open grave with ice cold arms result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thou=Patient into grave=Result |
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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