Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 31
But they were so large and heavy, he could not carry them all, so he took only the king.
Who acts: neighbours, forest · What happens: be, not carry, take · To what, where: neighbours, king
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 (neighbours, forest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 large | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 large | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 large | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heavy | cc |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 large | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carry | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 carry | advmod |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 large | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 took | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | conj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 king | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | neighbours = neighbour | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | neighbours = neighbour not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not carry | could | forest | neighbours = neighbour | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | forest | the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination |
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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