Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 129
She took an affectionate and reluctant leave of him, calling him back two or three times before she could let him go.
Who acts: Eva, Henry · What happens: take, call, let, go · To what, where: affectionate leave, Henry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eva, Henry), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 leave | det |
| 4 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leave | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reluctant | cc |
| 6 | reluctant | reluctant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 affectionate | conj |
| 7 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calling | punct |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 calling | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 two | advmod |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 three | cc |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 two | conj |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 calling | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 let | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | aux |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 calling | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Eva | a affectionate leave of Henry | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | Eva not said here | Henry | time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | let | could | Eva | Henry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Henry not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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