Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 9
At the hotel by the Radau waterfall an old man ordered the Kellner to bring beer, and called after him, "Aber ell!"
Who acts: old man · What happens: order, bring, call · To what, where: Kellner, hotel, beer, Aber ell · 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 (old man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 hotel | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hotel | det |
| 3 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 waterfall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waterfall | det |
| 6 | Radau | Radau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waterfall | compound |
| 7 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hotel | nmod |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Kellner | det |
| 13 | Kellner | Kellner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 called | cc |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ordered | conj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 called | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ell | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 ell | punct |
| 24 | Aber | Aber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ell | compound |
| 25 | ell | ell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 ell | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 ell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | a old man | the Kellner | the hotel by the Radau waterfall | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kellner=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | a old man not said here | beer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent beer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a old man not said here | Aber ell | after man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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