Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 70
The mother stooped and covered his head and face with passionate kisses, and Henry, springing forward, enclosed them both in a tender embrace.
Who acts: mother · What happens: stoop, cover, spring, enclose · To what, where: Henry, head, kisses, tender embrace
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stooped | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 covered | cc |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 face | cc |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 kisses | case |
| 11 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kisses | amod |
| 12 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Henry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Henry | cc |
| 15 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stooped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 springing | punct |
| 17 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stooped | advcl |
| 18 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 springing | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 enclosed | punct |
| 20 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 enclosed | obj |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 enclosed | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 embrace | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 embrace | det |
| 25 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 embrace | amod |
| 26 | embrace | embrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enclosed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | the mother | Henry | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | the mother not said here | fellow's head and face | with passionate kisses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with kiss=Theme | |||
| 3 | spring | gerund | the mother not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enclose | past | the mother not said here | kisses = kiss | a tender embrace | both property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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