Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 124
If thou hast granted me, fool that I was, two wishes, so grant me the third--the only one I have--to return home," and hot tears rolled down his face.
Who acts: I, two wishes · What happens: grant, be, have, return, roll down · To what, where: thou, two wishes, third, me, only one, fool
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 (I, two wishes), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 granted | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 granted | aux:pass |
| 4 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 granted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fool | punct |
| 7 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 granted | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 rolled | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wishes | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wishes | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wishes | punct |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 wishes | nummod |
| 13 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rolled | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grant | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 grant | advmod |
| 16 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 wishes | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 grant | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 third | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 grant | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wishes | appos |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 return | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 return | mark |
| 28 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 wishes | parataxis |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 return | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 return | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 return | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tears | cc |
| 33 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tears | amod |
| 34 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wishes | conj |
| 35 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | acl:relcl |
| 36 | down | down | ADP | _ | 35 rolled | compound:prt |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 face | nmod:poss |
| 38 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rolled | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | present · passive | thou | me obj; fool conj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | I | two wishes and hot tears | the only one appos; hot tears conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grant | infinitive | the third | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal third=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | the only one not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | roll down in a quote | past | two wishes and hot tears | fool | Graumännchen's face obj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent that=Theme face=Result |
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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