Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 65
I told him I should not deliver up the keys till I had done with the apartments, and expressed my surprise at the insolence in thus entering my room unbidden, and the cowardice of such conduct when no one was there to see or hear.
Who acts: I, one, my · What happens: tell, not deliver up, do, express, enter, be · To what, where: Mac, keys, surprise, insolence, room · 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 (I, one, my), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 deliver | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 deliver | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 deliver | advmod |
| 7 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 deliver | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 keys | det |
| 10 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 deliver | obj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 deliver | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 apartments | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apartments | det |
| 17 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 done | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 expressed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 expressed | cc |
| 20 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 22 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expressed | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 insolence | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 insolence | det |
| 25 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expressed | obl |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 28 entering | mark |
| 27 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 entering | advmod |
| 28 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 expressed | advcl |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 room | nmod:poss |
| 30 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entering | obj |
| 31 | unbidden | unbidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 entering | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 cowardice | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cowardice | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cowardice | det |
| 35 | cowardice | cowardice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 conduct | case |
| 37 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 conduct | amod |
| 38 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cowardice | nmod |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 there | advmod |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 one | det |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 there | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 there | cop |
| 43 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 told | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 there | advcl |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 hear | cc |
| 47 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 see | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | I | Mac | the cowardice of such conduct parataxis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not deliver up | should | I | the keys | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | I | with the apartments | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | express | past | I not said here | my surprise | the insolence | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Theme | |||
| 5 | enter | gerund | I not said here | my room | thus, unbidden property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||
| 6 | is | past | no one | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | no one not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | hear | infinitive | no one not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | surprise | my | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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