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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 76

"Karl and Franz, on hearing our story, sent them a solicitor's letter, demanding an explanation of their infamous conduct to two defenceless ladies.

Who acts: Karl, solicitor, infamous conduct, letters · What happens: hear, send, demand, letter, explain, conduct · To what, where: story, letters, explanation

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 (Karl, solicitor, infamous conduct, letters), 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

punctnsubjccconjpunctmarkconjnmod:possobjpunctobjdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctadvcldetobjcasenmod:possamodnmodcasenummodamodoblpunctroot"PUNCTKarlPROPNandCCONJFranzPROPN,PUNCTonSCONJhearingVERBourPRONstoryNOUN,PUNCTsentVERBthemPRONaDETsolicitorNOUN'sPARTletterNOUN,PUNCTdemandingVERBanDETexplanationNOUNofADPtheirPRONinfamousADJconductNOUNtoADPtwoNUMdefencelessADJladiesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Karlpunct
2KarlKarlPROPNNumber=Sing11 sentnsubj
3andandCCONJ_4 Franzcc
4FranzFranzPROPNNumber=Sing2 Karlconj
5,,PUNCT_7 hearingpunct
6ononSCONJ_7 hearingmark
7hearinghearVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 Karlconj
8ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 storynmod:poss
9storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing7 hearingobj
10,,PUNCT_2 Karlpunct
11sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 sentobj
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 solicitordet
14solicitorsolicitorNOUNNumber=Sing16 letternmod:poss
15's'sPART_14 solicitorcase
16letterletterNOUNNumber=Sing11 sentobj
17,,PUNCT_18 demandingpunct
18demandingdemandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 sentadvcl
19anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 explanationdet
20explanationexplanationNOUNNumber=Sing18 demandingobj
21ofofADP_24 conductcase
22theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 conductnmod:poss
23infamousinfamousADJDegree=Pos24 conductamod
24conductconductNOUNNumber=Sing20 explanationnmod
25totoADP_28 ladiescase
26twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card28 ladiesnummod
27defencelessdefencelessADJDegree=Pos28 ladiesamod
28ladiesladyNOUNNumber=Plur18 demandingobl
29..PUNCT_11 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hear in a quotegerundKarl and Franz not said hereour storyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2send in a quotepastKarl and Franzletters = lettera solicitor's letter objvn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination letter=Theme
3demand speech: request in a quotegerundKarl and Franz not said herea explanation of letters's infamous conductto two defenceless ladiesvn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme explanation=Precondition
4letter in a quotea solicitornom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5explain in a quoteletters's infamous conductnom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6conduct in a quoteletters = letternom conduct «act 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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