Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 100
They proved to be more valuable than he had hoped, and the jeweller begged him to sell to no one but himself.
Who acts: pocket, Tidian, jeweller · What happens: prove, be, hope, beg, sell · To what, where: Tidian, one
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pocket, Tidian, jeweller), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 proved | nsubj |
| 2 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 valuable | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 valuable | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 valuable | advmod |
| 6 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 proved | ccomp |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 hoped | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hoped | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hoped | aux |
| 10 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 valuable | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 begged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 begged | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jeweller | det |
| 14 | jeweller | jeweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | nsubj |
| 15 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 proved | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 begged | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sell | mark |
| 18 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 begged | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sell | obl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 himself | cc |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 one | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | pocket not said here | valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | past · perfect | Tidian | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | the jeweller | Tidian | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | the jeweller not said here | no one Tidian | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
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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