Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 26

It looked so strange, and still seemed to gaze so mildly and confidentially in the eyes of the children, that they all at once fancied something supernatural in the flower.

Who acts: Flower, children · What happens: look, seem, gaze, fancy · To what, where: something, flower

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flower, children), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 strange	advmod
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seemed	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 seemed	advmod
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 gaze	mark
10	gaze	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	xcomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 mildly	advmod
12	mildly	mildly	ADV	_	10 gaze	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 confidentially	cc
14	confidentially	confidentially	ADV	_	12 mildly	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eyes	det
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gaze	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 children	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eyes	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fancied	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 fancied	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fancied	nsubj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 they	det
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 fancied	obl
27	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	conj
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 fancied	obj
29	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 something	amod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 flower	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 flower	det
32	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fancied	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Flower				strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	seem	past				still		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	gaze	to-infinitive					in the eyes of the children; mildly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eye=Theme
4	fancy	past	children = child	something	the flower			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 26