Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 80

Huldigunde looked wishfully at the ripe fruit and cried, "What a pity you cannot pluck me any."

Who acts: Huldigunde, pity · What happens: look, cry, not pluck · To what, where: Huldigunde · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huldigunde, pity), 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	Huldigunde	Huldigunde	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wishfully	wishfully	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
6	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fruit	amod
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pluck	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 pluck	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 pluck	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pity	det
14	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pluck	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 pluck	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 pluck	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 pluck	advmod
18	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 pluck	obj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 pluck	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 pluck	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 pluck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Huldigunde		at the ripe fruit; wishfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fruit=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Huldigunde not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not pluck in a quote	can	a pity	Huldigunde	What obj; you nsubj	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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 80