Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 82
I only know that it is an enchanted young noble, the son of an Earl, but how it all hangs together has escaped me.
Who acts: I, length · What happens: know, enchant, be, hang together, escape · To what, where: enchanted young noble, me · 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 (I, length), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 know | advmod |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 noble | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noble | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 noble | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noble | det |
| 8 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 noble | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 noble | amod |
| 10 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noble | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Earl | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Earl | det |
| 16 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 escaped | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 escaped | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 hangs | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hangs | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 it | det |
| 22 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 escaped | advcl |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 hangs | advmod |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 escaped | aux |
| 25 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 know | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 escaped | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | length | a enchanted young noble and the son of a Earl | the son of a Earl conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hang together | present | length | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | escape | present · perfect | me | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location |
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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