Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 81
For every piece of gold a pebble, as large again, and not one piece of gold!
To what, where: piece pebble
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 piece | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 piece | det |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pebble | compound |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pebble | det |
| 7 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 large | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pebble | amod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 piece | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 piece | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 piece | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 piece | nummod |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 large | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 pebble | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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