Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 56
"Ah, Herr!" replied the herb-gatherer sadly, "so long as I can remember, and my parents and grandparents, no castle has stood there, and neither knight nor maiden has dwelt in its broken walls.
Who acts: Herr · What happens: reply, remember, stand, dwell, break · To what, where: herb gatherer, parents, knight, broken walls · 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 (Herr), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Herr | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Herr | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gatherer | det |
| 9 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gatherer | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 herb | punct |
| 11 | gatherer | gatherer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 12 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 remember | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 remember | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 remember | aux |
| 20 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 long | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stood | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 parents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 grandparents | cc |
| 26 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 parents | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 castle | det |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 stood | aux |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | conj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 stood | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dwelt | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dwelt | cc |
| 35 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 knight | det |
| 36 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dwelt | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 38 maiden | cc |
| 38 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 knight | conj |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 dwelt | aux |
| 40 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 stood | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 walls | case |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 walls | nmod:poss |
| 43 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 walls | amod |
| 44 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 dwelt | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Herr | the herb gatherer | long, sadly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gatherer=Topic | |||
| 2 | remember in a quote | can | Herr | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present · perfect · passive | my parents and grandparents | there | no castle nsubj:pass | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | dwell in a quote | present · perfect · passive | neither knight nor maiden | castle's broken walls | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 5 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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