Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 83
And Otto cried, "Good morning, Philippine!" drew his hands from his girdle, and threw them around her her neck.
Who acts: Otto, Good morning · What happens: cry, draw, throw · To what, where: hands, girdle, cherries, neck
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 (Otto, Good morning), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cried | cc |
| 2 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Philippine | punct |
| 9 | Philippine | philippine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 morning | appos |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Philippine | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Philippine | punct |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 girdle | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 threw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 threw | cc |
| 20 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 threw | obj |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 neck | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neck | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Otto | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | Good morning | Otto's hands | Otto's girdle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from girdle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | throw | past | Otto not said here | cherries = cherry | Princess's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme around neck=Destination |
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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