Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 99
He entered it, his mind full of tales of buried treasures, filled his pockets with the glittering sand and stones, with the intention of offering them for sale to a jeweller in Aschersleben.
Who acts: Tidian, intention, buried treasures · What happens: enter, bury, fill, offer, mind, tell · To what, where: flower, pockets, pocket, jeweller · 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 (Tidian, intention, buried treasures), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mind | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tales | case |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 treasures | case |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 treasures | amod |
| 12 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tales | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obj | |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sand | det |
| 19 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sand | compound |
| 20 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stones | cc |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sand | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 intention | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 intention | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 intention | det |
| 26 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 offering | mark |
| 28 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 intention | acl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offering | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 sale | case |
| 31 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offering | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 jeweller | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 jeweller | det |
| 34 | jeweller | jeweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offering | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Aschersleben | case |
| 36 | Aschersleben | Aschersleben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 jeweller | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Tidian | flower | Tidian's mind obl | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 2 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fill | past | Tidian not said here | Tidian's pockets | with the glittering sand and stones; with the intention | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with sand=Instrument | |||
| 4 | offer | gerund | the intention not said here | to a jeweller in Aschersleben goal; for sale | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme to jeweller=Goal | ||||
| 5 | mind | Tidian | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | tell | buried treasures | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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