Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 66
Miss Mac Stab, with one sweep of her hand, brushed all my writing materials on the floor, and her no less amiable brother seated himself, saying he should wait till he had the keys. '
Who acts: Miss Mac Stab, amiable brother, Mac · What happens: brush, seat, say, wait, have · To what, where: writing materials, floor, Mac, keys · 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 (Miss Mac Stab, amiable brother, Mac), 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 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Stab | compound |
| 2 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Stab | compound |
| 3 | Stab | Stab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brushed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweep | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sweep | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sweep | nummod |
| 7 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Stab | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweep | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stab | punct |
| 12 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 materials | det:predet |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 materials | nmod:poss |
| 15 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 materials | compound |
| 16 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brushed | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 materials | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seated | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 seated | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 less | advmod |
| 24 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 amiable | advmod |
| 25 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 brother | amod |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seated | nsubj |
| 27 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brushed | conj |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 seated | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saying | punct |
| 30 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 brushed | advcl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wait | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 wait | aux |
| 33 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 had | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 wait | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 keys | det |
| 38 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 had | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 wait | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | past | Miss Mac Stab | my writing materials | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent material=Theme on floor=Destination | |||
| 2 | seat | past | Stab's amiable brother | Mac | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Miss Mac Stab not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wait | should | Mac | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Mac | the keys | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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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