Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 99

Finally the fisherman replied, "Yes, the fulfilment of my wish is delightful, and the Treseburg is a right stately Schloss; but I should like, as my ancestors once ruled there, to be transplanted into the position of my ancestor who lived there five hundred years ago, in exactly the same circumstances."

Who acts: fisherman, fulfilment, Treseburg, ancestors, ancestor, my · What happens: reply, be, like, rule, transplant, live · To what, where: right stately Schloss, position, 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 (fisherman, fulfilment, Treseburg, ancestors), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	4 replied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 delightful	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 delightful	punct
7	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	15 delightful	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Yes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fulfilment	det
10	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 delightful	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wish	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wish	nmod:poss
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fulfilment	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 delightful	cop
15	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 replied	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Schloss	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Schloss	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Treseburg	det
19	Treseburg	Treseburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Schloss	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 Schloss	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Schloss	det
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Schloss	amod
23	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Schloss	amod
24	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 delightful	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 like	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 like	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 like	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 like	aux
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 replied	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ruled	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 ruled	mark
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ancestors	nmod:poss
33	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ruled	nsubj
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 ruled	advmod
35	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 like	parataxis
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 ruled	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 transplanted	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	40 transplanted	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 transplanted	aux:pass
40	transplanted	transplant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 like	conj
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 position	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 position	det
43	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 transplanted	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 ancestor	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 ancestor	nmod:poss
46	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 position	nmod
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 lived	nsubj
48	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 ancestor	acl:relcl
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 lived	advmod
50	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 hundred	compound
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 years	nummod
52	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ago	obl:unmarked
53	ago	ago	ADV	_	48 lived	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 circumstances	punct
55	in	in	ADP	_	59 circumstances	case
56	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	59 circumstances	advmod
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 circumstances	det
58	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 circumstances	amod
59	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 transplanted	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 like	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the fisherman			finally property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the fulfilment of my wish			delightful property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	the Treseburg	a right stately Schloss			tree rules
4	like in a quote	should	the fisherman = fisherman				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	rule in a quote	past	my ancestors		there	once property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	transplant in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the fisherman = fisherman not said here		the position of my ancestor	in the same circumstances	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	live in a quote	past	my ancestor		there	ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fulfil in a quote			my wish			nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient
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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 99