Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 74
At last, he said one day to his wife, "There is something the matter with the White Stag, and he longs to tell.
Who acts: language, something · What happens: say, be, long, tell · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (language, something), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 13 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 longs | advcl |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 is | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 matter | det |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 something | appos |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Stag | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Stag | det |
| 20 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Stag | amod |
| 21 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 matter | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 longs | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 longs | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 longs | nsubj |
| 25 | longs | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 tell | mark |
| 27 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 longs | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | language | last | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | long in a quote | present | language | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | language not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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