Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 101
The fame of this gold speedily spread, and it happened the Graf von Falkenstein himself visited the goldsmith, when by chance this gold was spoken of.
Who acts: fame, it, Graf Falkenstein, chance · What happens: spread, happen, visit, speak · To what, where: goldsmith, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fame, it, Graf Falkenstein, chance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fame | det |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fame | nmod |
| 6 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 7 spread | advmod |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happened | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Falkenstein | det |
| 13 | Graf | Graf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Falkenstein | compound |
| 14 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 13 Graf | flat |
| 15 | Falkenstein | Falkenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 visited | nsubj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 Falkenstein | nmod |
| 17 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goldsmith | det |
| 19 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visited | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoken | punct |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 spoken | mark |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 chance | case |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spoken | obl |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 gold | det |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 spoken | aux:pass |
| 27 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 visited | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 spoken | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the fame of this gold | speedily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | visit | past | the Graf Falkenstein fame | the goldsmith | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past · passive | chance | this gold | tree rules |
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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