Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 49
The impostor seeks to deceive honest folk with her pretended wedding ring and tales of lost luggage!'
Who acts: impostor, lost luggage · What happens: seek, deceive, pretend, lose, tell · To what, where: honest folk · 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 (impostor, lost luggage), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 impostor | det |
| 2 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeks | nsubj |
| 3 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 deceive | mark |
| 5 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seeks | xcomp |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 folk | amod |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deceive | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ring | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ring | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ring | amod |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ring | compound |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deceive | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tales | cc |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ring | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 luggage | case |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 luggage | amod |
| 17 | luggage | luggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tales | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeks | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | the impostor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | deceive not said to happen | to-infinitive | the impostor not said here | honest folk | with impostor's pretended wedding ring and tales of lost luggage | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Patient | |||
| 3 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | tell | lost luggage | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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