Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 35
Hence she stood thoughtfully gazing in the flower's clear eye, when again she heard in soft tones, "Pluck me! pluck me!"
Who acts: girl · What happens: stand, gaze, hear, pluck · To what, where: soft tones, flower · 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 (girl), 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 | Hence | hence | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 eye | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eye | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 flower | case |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eye | amod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gazing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 again | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tones | case |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tones | amod |
| 19 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heard | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pluck | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pluck | punct |
| 22 | Pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 heard | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 Pluck | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 pluck | punct |
| 25 | pluck | pluck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pluck | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 pluck | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 pluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | girl | hence, thoughtfully property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | girl not said here | in the flower's clear eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | girl | soft tones | again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | pluck in a quote | infinitive | girl not said here | the flower = flower | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pluck in a quote | infinitive | the flower = flower | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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