Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 91
Two sons of the family, when visiting their widowed mother at Wallhausen, besought her to permit them to drink out of these mysterious goblets, which she imprudently allowed; and as they struck their glasses together with a merry prosit, one was shattered.
Who acts: Two sons, Wallhausen, Goblets, one · What happens: visit, widow, beseech, permit, drink out, allow · To what, where: widowed mother, Wallhausen, Goblets, mysterious goblets, glasses, merry prosit
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 (Two sons, Wallhausen, Goblets, one), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sons | nummod |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 besought | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 family | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sons | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 visiting | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 visiting | advmod |
| 8 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sons | acl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mother | amod |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visiting | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Wallhausen | case |
| 13 | Wallhausen | Wallhausen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 visiting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sons | punct |
| 15 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 besought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 permit | mark |
| 18 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 besought | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 permit | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 drink | mark |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 permit | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 goblets | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 goblets | case |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 goblets | det |
| 25 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 goblets | amod |
| 26 | goblets | goblet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drink | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 allowed | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 allowed | obj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 allowed | nsubj |
| 30 | imprudently | imprudently | ADV | _ | 31 allowed | advmod |
| 31 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 goblets | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 struck | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 struck | cc |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 struck | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 struck | nsubj |
| 36 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 besought | conj |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 38 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 struck | obj |
| 39 | together | together | ADV | _ | 36 struck | advmod |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 prosit | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 prosit | det |
| 42 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 prosit | amod |
| 43 | prosit | prosit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 struck | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 shattered | punct |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 shattered | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 shattered | cop |
| 47 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 prosit | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | Goblets's widowed mother | Wallhausen | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | beseech | past | Two sons of the family | Wallhausen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | permit | to-infinitive | Two sons of the family not said here | Goblets = goblet | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | drink out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Two sons of the family not said here | this mysterious goblets | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient | ||||
| 6 | allow | past | Wallhausen | this mysterious goblets | imprudently property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | strike | past | Goblets = goblet | Goblets's glasses | with a merry prosit; together property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent glass=Patient with prosit=Instrument | |||
| 8 | is | past | one | a merry prosit not said here | shattered property | 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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