Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 47
"We explained to the elder Miss Mac Stab, who wore a couple of pig-tail curls each side of her face, that our trunks were lost, but we hoped would be found in a day or two.
Who acts: We, elder Miss Mac, couple · What happens: explain, wear, curl, lose, hope, find · To what, where: elder Miss Mac, side, trunks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, elder Miss Mac, couple), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 explained | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 explained | nsubj |
| 3 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Mac | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mac | det |
| 6 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Mac | amod |
| 7 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mac | compound |
| 8 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 explained | obl |
| 9 | Stab | Stab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mac | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wore | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wore | nsubj |
| 12 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Mac | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 couple | det |
| 14 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 curls | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 16 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tail | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pig | punct |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 couple | nmod |
| 19 | curls | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wore | ccomp |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 curls | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 face | nmod:poss |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lost | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 lost | mark |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 trunks | nmod:poss |
| 28 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux:pass |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 curls | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hoped | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 hoped | cc |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 hoped | nsubj |
| 34 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 explained | conj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 found | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 found | aux:pass |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 hoped | ccomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 day | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 day | det |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | obl |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 two | cc |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 day | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert in a quote | past | We | the elder Miss Mac | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to mac=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | wear in a quote | past | the elder Miss Mac | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | curl in a quote | present | a couple of pig tail | each side of couple's face | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | past · passive | our trunks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | hope in a quote | past | we | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find in a quote | would · passive | day | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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