Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 85
Graumännchen was much pleased at this kindness, thanked the fisherman in the warmest terms, and said, "Thou art a good, obliging man, and since thou hast fulfiled my wish, I could wish that thou also hadst a wish or two that I might grant."
Who acts: Graumännchen, thou, wish, my · What happens: be, thank, say, oblige, fulfile, wish · To what, where: kindness, fisherman, warmest terms, thou, that, wish · 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, thou, wish, my), 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 | 9 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Graumännchen | appos |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 kindness | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 kindness | det |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Graumännchen | punct |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fisherman | det |
| 11 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 terms | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 terms | det |
| 14 | warmest | warm | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 terms | amod |
| 15 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thanked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thanked | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 art | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 art | punct |
| 21 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 art | nsubj |
| 22 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 obliging | punct |
| 26 | obliging | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 art | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wish | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wish | cc |
| 30 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 33 fulfiled | mark |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 fulfiled | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fulfiled | aux |
| 33 | fulfiled | fulfile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 wish | advcl |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wish | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fulfiled | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fulfiled | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 wish | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 wish | aux |
| 39 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thanked | parataxis |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 wish | obj |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 hadst | nsubj |
| 42 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 hadst | advmod |
| 43 | hadst | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 that | acl:relcl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 wish | det |
| 45 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hadst | obj |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 two | cc |
| 47 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 wish | conj |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 grant | nsubj |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 grant | nsubj |
| 50 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 grant | aux |
| 51 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 wish | acl:relcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 wish | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this kindness | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | Graumännchen | the fisherman | the warmest terms | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | oblige in a quote | gerund | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | fulfile in a quote | present · perfect · passive | thou | my wish obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wish in a quote | could | Graumännchen | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | past | thou | a wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 8 | grant in a quote | might | a wish | I nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | wish in a quote | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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