Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 116
She raised her jasper-blue eyes, looked kindly on him, and beckoned him to approach and gather the shining flower.
Who acts: moon · What happens: raise, look, beckon, approach, gather, shine · To what, where: blue eyes, light, shining flower
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | jasper | jasper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blue | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 jasper | punct |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 raised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | parataxis |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beckoned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beckoned | cc |
| 15 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 beckoned | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 approach | mark |
| 18 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beckoned | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gather | cc |
| 20 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 approach | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flower | det |
| 22 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 flower | amod |
| 23 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gather | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | moon | moon's blue eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | on light; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beckon | past | moon not said here | light | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | approach | to-infinitive | moon not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | gather | infinitive | moon not said here | the shining flower | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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