Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 77
Just ask old Fischersche, who will be able to tell thee."
Who acts: you, old Fischersche · What happens: ask, be, tell · To what, where: thee · 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 (you, old Fischersche), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fischersche | amod |
| 4 | Fischersche | Fischersche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 able | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 able | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ask | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | future | old Fischersche | who nsubj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | old Fischersche not said here | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
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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