Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 84
She bows to thee in graceful greeting, she offers thee the full lips to kiss, she beckons, she spreads out the arms.
Who acts: guard · What happens: bow, offer, kiss, beckon, spread out · To what, where: graceful greeting, full lips, thee, arms
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (guard), 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 bows | nsubj |
| 2 | bows | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 thee | case |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 bows | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 greeting | case |
| 6 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 greeting | amod |
| 7 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bows | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offers | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 offers | nsubj |
| 10 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bows | conj |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 offers | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lips | det |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lips | amod |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 offers | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kiss | mark |
| 16 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lips | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beckons | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beckons | nsubj |
| 19 | beckons | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bows | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spreads | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spreads | nsubj |
| 22 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 beckons | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 spreads | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 arms | det |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spreads | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | present | guard | graceful greeting | to thee | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thou=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | present | guard | the full lips | thee | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal lip=Theme | |||
| 3 | kiss | to-infinitive | guard not said here | the full lips not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | beckon | present | guard | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | spread out | present | guard | the arms | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=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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