Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 104
Just then a door opened, and an old squire entered and said, "I left you a moment to prepare an ointment for your wound, in order that you may yourself appear on the walls and defend the Schloss.
Who acts: door, old squire, you, your · What happens: open, enter, say, leave, prepare, appear · To what, where: you, order, ointment, walls, Schloss · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, old squire, you, your), 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 | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 opened | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entered | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 squire | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 squire | amod |
| 10 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | nsubj |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 left | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 prepare | mark |
| 22 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 moment | acl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ointment | det |
| 24 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prepare | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 wound | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wound | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prepare | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 order | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 order | case |
| 30 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 appear | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 appear | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 appear | aux |
| 34 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 appear | nsubj |
| 35 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 order | acl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 walls | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 walls | det |
| 38 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 appear | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 defend | cc |
| 40 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 appear | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Schloss | det |
| 42 | Schloss | schloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 defend | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | a door | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | a old squire | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a door not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | past | a door = door | you | order | moment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in order=Location | ||
| 5 | prepare in a quote | to-infinitive | a door = door not said here | a ointment | for your wound | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ointment=Product for wound=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | appear in a quote | may | you | order not said here | the walls | yourself nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme | ||
| 7 | defend in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the Schloss | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schloss=Beneficiary | ||||
| 8 | wound in a quote | your | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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