Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 132

Then she took a small flask from her writing-table, poured its contents in a glass of water, and reclining in her fauteuil, drank it.

Who acts: Eva · What happens: take, pour, recline, drink · To what, where: small flask, writing table, contents, glass, fauteuil, flask

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flask	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flask	amod
6	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 table	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 table	nmod:poss
9	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 table	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 writing	punct
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 poured	punct
13	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 contents	nmod:poss
15	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 poured	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 glass	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 glass	det
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poured	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glass	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reclining	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reclining	cc
23	reclining	recline	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 poured	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 fauteuil	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fauteuil	nmod:poss
26	fauteuil	fauteuil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reclining	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drank	punct
28	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drank	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Eva	a small flask	Eva's writing table	then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flask=Theme from table=Initial_Location
2	pour	past	Eva not said here	table's contents	a glass of water		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Patient
3	recline	gerund	Eva not said here		Eva's fauteuil		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fauteuil=Location
4	drink	past	Eva not said here	flask			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 3, sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 132