Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 78

The manly youths kissed the mother's emaciated hand and silently retired, but Eva flung herself sobbing on her breast, and refused to be comforted.

Who acts: manly youths, Eva · What happens: kiss, emaciate, fling, sob, refuse, not comfort · To what, where: emaciated hand, mother, breast

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 (manly youths, Eva), 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	3 youths	det
2	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youths	amod
3	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kissed	nsubj
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mother	case
8	emaciated	emaciate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hand	amod
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kissed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 retired	cc
11	silently	silently	ADV	_	12 retired	advmod
12	retired	retired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kissed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flung	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 flung	cc
15	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 flung	nsubj
16	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kissed	conj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 flung	obj
18	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 flung	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 breast	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 breast	nmod:poss
21	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sobbing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 refused	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 refused	cc
24	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kissed	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 comforted	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 comforted	aux:pass
27	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 refused	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kiss	past	the manly youths	the mother's emaciated hand		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
2	emaciate	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fling	past	Eva	mother		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	sob	gerund	Eva not said here		mother's breast	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	refuse	past	the manly youths not said here			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not comfort	to-infinitive · passive	the manly youths not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 78