Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 86
They approached him, pressed his hand in the most friendly manner, and inquired how the chamber pleased him, and which piece he would choose.
Who acts: eyes, piece · What happens: approach, press, inquire, choose · To what, where: man, hand, friendly manner
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, piece), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 approached | nsubj |
| 2 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 approached | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pressed | punct |
| 5 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 approached | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pressed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 manner | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 friendly | advmod |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 manner | amod |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pressed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 inquired | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 inquired | cc |
| 15 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 approached | parataxis |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 pleased | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chamber | det |
| 18 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 inquired | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 choose | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 choose | cc |
| 23 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 24 piece | det |
| 24 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 choose | nsubj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 choose | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 choose | aux |
| 27 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 inquired | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | eyes = eye | man | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | press | past | eyes = eye not said here | man's hand | the friendly manner | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | choose | would | which piece | chamber nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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