Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 24
From a scrap of mud, through the effect of light and heat, perhaps by contact with some other body, a frog was produced.
What happens: produce, effect · To what, where: frog, scrap, light
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 scrap | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scrap | det |
| 3 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 produced | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mud | case |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scrap | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 effect | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 effect | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 effect | det |
| 9 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scrap | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 effect | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heat | cc |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 contact | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 contact | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 contact | case |
| 17 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 body | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 body | amod |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contact | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 scrap | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 frog | det |
| 24 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 produced | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 produced | aux:pass |
| 26 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past · passive | a frog | a scrap of mud and the effect of light and heat and contact with some other body | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from scrap=Material | ||||
| 2 | effect | light and heat and contact with some other body | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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