Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 4
And Fischersche asked further: "'Say on, raven, who knowest all things, if and how the enchantment may be broken."
Who acts: Fischersche, raven · What happens: ask, say, know, break · To what, where: things, enchantment · 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 (Fischersche, raven), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | Fischersche | Fischersche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 asked | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Say | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Say | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Say | punct |
| 8 | Say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 Say | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 raven | punct |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Say | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knowest | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 knowest | nsubj |
| 14 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 raven | parataxis |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knowest | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 broken | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 broken | mark |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 broken | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 broken | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 enchantment | det |
| 22 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 broken | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 broken | aux:pass |
| 25 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Say | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Fischersche | far property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Fischersche not said here | raven ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | raven | all things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | break a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | may · passive | the enchantment | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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