Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 86
He could not restrain himself from approaching the graceful figure, and inquiring the cause of her grief.
Who acts: sympathy · What happens: not restrain, approach, inquire, cause · To what, where: sympathy, graceful figure, cause, grief
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sympathy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 restrain | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 restrain | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 restrain | advmod |
| 4 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 restrain | obj |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 approaching | mark |
| 7 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 restrain | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 figure | det |
| 9 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 figure | amod |
| 10 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 approaching | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inquiring | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 inquiring | cc |
| 13 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 approaching | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cause | det |
| 15 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inquiring | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grief | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grief | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cause | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 restrain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not restrain | could | sympathy | sympathy | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer himself=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | sympathy not said here | the graceful figure | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | gerund | sympathy not said here | the cause of maiden's grief | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | cause | maiden's grief | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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