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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 30

It was not a dream, for all the pins lay there before him; but knowing that his neighbours in Attenbrack would hold him for a dreamer without proof, he decided to take the pins home with him.

Who acts: cause, pins, forest, neighbours · What happens: not be, lie, know, hold, decide, take · To what, where: dream, forest, pins · 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 (cause, pins, forest, neighbours), 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

nsubjcopadvmoddetpunctmarkdet:predetdetnsubjparataxisadvmodcaseoblpunctccadvclmarknmod:possnsubjcasenmodauxccompobjcasedetoblcaseoblpunctnsubjconjmarkxcompdetobjadvmodcaseoblpunctrootItPRONwasAUXnotPARTaDETdreamNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJallDETtheDETpinsNOUNlayVERBthereADVbeforeADPhimPRON;PUNCTbutCCONJknowingVERBthatSCONJhisPRONneighboursNOUNinADPAttenbrackPROPNwouldAUXholdVERBhimPRONforADPaDETdreamerNOUNwithoutADPproofNOUN,PUNCThePRONdecidedVERBtoPARTtakeVERBtheDETpinsNOUNhomeADVwithADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 dreamnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 dreamcop
3notnotPARTPolarity=Neg5 dreamadvmod
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 dreamdet
5dreamdreamNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
6,,PUNCT_11 laypunct
7forforSCONJ_11 laymark
8allallDETPronType=Tot10 pinsdet:predet
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 pinsdet
10pinspinNOUNNumber=Plur11 laynsubj
11laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 dreamparataxis
12therethereADVPronType=Dem11 layadvmod
13beforebeforeADP_14 himcase
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 layobl
15;;PUNCT_33 decidedpunct
16butbutCCONJ_33 decidedcc
17knowingknowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part33 decidedadvcl
18thatthatSCONJ_24 holdmark
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 neighboursnmod:poss
20neighboursneighbourNOUNNumber=Plur24 holdnsubj
21ininADP_22 Attenbrackcase
22AttenbrackAttenbrackPROPNNumber=Sing20 neighboursnmod
23wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 holdaux
24holdholdVERBVerbForm=Inf17 knowingccomp
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 holdobj
26forforADP_28 dreamercase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 dreamerdet
28dreamerdreamerNOUNNumber=Sing24 holdobl
29withoutwithoutADP_30 proofcase
30proofproofNOUNNumber=Sing24 holdobl
31,,PUNCT_17 knowingpunct
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 decidednsubj
33decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 dreamconj
34totoPART_35 takemark
35taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf33 decidedxcomp
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 pinsdet
37pinspinNOUNNumber=Plur35 takeobj
38homehomeADV_35 takeadvmod
39withwithADP_40 himcase
40himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 takeobl
41..PUNCT_5 dreampunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not is apastcausea dreamtree rules
2liepastall pinstherebefore forestvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3knowgerundforest not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4holdwouldforest's neighbours in Attenbrackforestfor a dreamer; without proofvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5decidepastforestvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6take not said to happento-infinitiveforest not said herethe pinswith forest; home propertyvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme

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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