Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 52
I took Olga by the arm and walked firmly to the breakfast-room.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, walk · To what, where: Olga
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Olga | Olga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 arm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arm | det |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 8 walked | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 12 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 breakfast | punct |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | Olga | by the arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument olga=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk | past | I not said here | to the breakfast room result; firmly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=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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