Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 33
Then he drew forth from his pocket the pin, as proof; but it was so heavy he could not hold it, and it fell to the ground with a clear ring; when, lifting it up, it was found to be pure gold.
Who acts: forest, it, proof · What happens: draw, be, not hold, fall, lift up, find · To what, where: proof, pure gold
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 (forest, it, proof), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 pocket | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl | ||
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pin | det |
| 9 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pocket | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 proof | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 proof | case |
| 12 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 heavy | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 heavy | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heavy | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heavy | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 heavy | advmod |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drew | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hold | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hold | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 hold | advmod |
| 22 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heavy | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hold | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 ground | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ground | det |
| 30 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 ring | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 ring | det |
| 33 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ring | amod |
| 34 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 lifting | punct |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 lifting | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lifting | punct |
| 38 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drew | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lifting | obj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 lifting | compound:prt |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 found | punct |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 found | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 found | aux:pass |
| 44 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 lifting | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 gold | mark |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 gold | cop |
| 47 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 gold | amod |
| 48 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 found | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | forest | then | from forest's pocket and the pin; proof conj; forth property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pocket=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | it | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hold | could | forest | proof | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | proof | to the ground; with a clear ring | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lift up | gerund | forest not said here | proof | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past · passive | proof | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | proof not said here | pure 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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