Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 91
"My greatest wish," replied the fisherman, "is to be set back five hundred years, in order that, instead of that heap of ruins across there, the Treseburg might raise its proud battlements and tower."
Who acts: greatest wish, Treseburg, My · What happens: reply, set back, raise, wish · To what, where: fisherman, order, proud battlements · 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 (greatest wish, Treseburg, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nmod:poss |
| 3 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 wish | amod |
| 4 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | 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 | 9 fisherman | det |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 hundred | advmod |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hundred | compound |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 order | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 order | case |
| 22 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 order | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heap | punct |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 28 heap | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 heap | det |
| 28 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 that | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ruins | case |
| 30 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 heap | nmod |
| 31 | across | across | ADV | _ | 32 there | advmod |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 heap | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 raise | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Treseburg | det |
| 35 | Treseburg | Treseburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 raise | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 raise | aux |
| 37 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 heap | conj |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 battlements | nmod:poss |
| 39 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 battlements | amod |
| 40 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 raise | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 tower | cc |
| 42 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 battlements | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My greatest wish | the fisherman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set back in a quote | present · passive | order that | year | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in order=Destination | ||||
| 3 | raise in a quote | might | the Treseburg | wish's proud battlements and tower | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battlement=Theme | ||||
| 4 | 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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