Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 30

The boy started back in affright; but, vexed at his fear, feeling sure a flower could not speak, he began again to mount the tower; but the same voice came from the flower, "Do not pluck me," and the children cried, "Give it up and come down!"

Who acts: boy, flower, John, same voice, children · What happens: start back, vex, feel, not speak, begin, mount · To what, where: affright, fear, tower, flower, children, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, flower, John, same voice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 started	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 affright	case
6	affright	affright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 vexed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 vexed	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vexed	punct
10	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 started	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 fear	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fear	nmod:poss
13	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vexed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feeling	punct
15	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 vexed	advcl
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feeling	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flower	det
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 speak	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 speak	advmod
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 vexed	conj
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 began	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 mount	mark
27	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tower	det
29	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mount	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 voice	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 voice	amod
34	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	parataxis
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 flower	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 flower	det
38	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pluck	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 pluck	punct
41	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 pluck	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 pluck	advmod
43	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 came	conj
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 pluck	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pluck	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 pluck	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 cried	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 children	det
49	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 cried	nsubj
50	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Give	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 Give	punct
53	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 cried	ccomp
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 Give	obj
55	up	up	ADP	_	53 Give	compound:prt
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 come	cc
57	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 Give	conj
58	down	down	ADV	_	57 come	advmod
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 Give	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start back	past	the boy		affright			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	vex	participle			John's fear			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	feel	gerund					sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not speak speech: other	could	a flower					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	John			again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	mount	to-infinitive	John not said here	the tower				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient
7	come	past	the same voice		the flower			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from flower=Initial_Location
8	not pluck in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the same voice not said here	the children = child				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
9	cry speech: express	past	the children					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	give up in a quote	infinitive		voice				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
11	come down in a quote	infinitive					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	fear		John					nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 30