Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 11
He had been parading about and ordering the Kellner as if he owned the whole place, which made his missing h all the more amusing.
Who acts: Hell, whole place · What happens: parade, order, own, make · To what, where: Kellner, whole place, missing h
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hell, whole place), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 parading | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 parading | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 parading | aux |
| 4 | parading | parade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 parading | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ordering | cc |
| 7 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 parading | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kellner | det |
| 9 | Kellner | Kellner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ordering | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 owned | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 owned | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 owned | nsubj |
| 13 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ordering | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owned | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 h | nmod:poss |
| 21 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 h | amod |
| 22 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 amusing | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 amusing | det |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 amusing | advmod |
| 26 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 made | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 parading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | parade | past · perfect · progressive | Hell | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | gerund | Hell not said here | the Kellner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kellner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | own | past | Hell | the whole place | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the whole place | Hell's missing h | amusing property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset h=Product |
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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