Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 19
At first he was filled with disgust, but taking courage he shut his eyes and kissed her.
Who acts: taking courage · What happens: fill, take, shut, kiss · To what, where: shepherd, eyes, courage
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taking courage), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 filled | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 disgust | case |
| 7 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shut | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 shut | cc |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 courage | amod |
| 11 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shut | nsubj |
| 13 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shut | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kissed | cc |
| 17 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shut | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kissed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | shepherd | with disgust | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with disgust=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | shut | past | taking courage | shepherd's eyes | shepherd nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 4 | kiss | past | taking courage not said here | courage | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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