Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 126
Graumännchen stood by him, pressed his hand, and said with friendly smile: "Willst thou be henceforth contented, or hast thou still another wish?"
Who acts: Graumännchen · What happens: stand, press, say, content, have · To what, where: hand, Willst, thou · 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 (Graumännchen), 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 | Graumännchen | Graumännchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pressed | punct |
| 6 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pressed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 smile | case |
| 13 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 smile | amod |
| 14 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 contented | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Willst | punct |
| 17 | Willst | Willst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 contented | aux:pass |
| 20 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 21 contented | advmod |
| 21 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hast | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 hast | cc |
| 24 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 contented | conj |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 hast | obj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 wish | advmod |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 wish | det |
| 28 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hast | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Graumännchen | by Ritter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location | ||||
| 2 | press | past | Graumännchen's hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | with friendly smile | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner | |||||
| 4 | content in a quote | infinitive · passive | Willst | thou nsubj:pass; henceforth property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | thou | another wish obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
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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