Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 81
At length she said: "It is a wonderful history of the White Stag; my aged grandmother told it me over a hundred years ago, but I cannot now remember it perfectly!
Who acts: Fischersche, length, aged grandmother · What happens: say, be, tell, not remember · To what, where: length, wonderful history, Fischersche · 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 (Fischersche, length, aged grandmother), 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 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 history | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 history | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 history | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 history | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 history | det |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 history | amod |
| 11 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Stag | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Stag | det |
| 14 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Stag | amod |
| 15 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 history | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grandmother | amod |
| 19 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | obj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hundred | det |
| 25 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 told | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 remember | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 remember | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 remember | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 remember | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 remember | advmod |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 remember | advmod |
| 34 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 told | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 remember | obj |
| 36 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 34 remember | advmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Fischersche | length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | length | a wonderful history | of the White Stag | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | my aged grandmother | length | Fischersche | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Topic | ||
| 4 | not remember in a quote | can | Fischersche | length | now | perfectly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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