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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 36

The maiden came nearer, the flower's glance grew more loving, but under her leaves she saw the serpent-head, which rose hissing and coiling.

Who acts: maiden, glance, serpent head, flower · What happens: come, grow, see, rise, hiss, coil · To what, where: serpent head, leaves

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 (maiden, glance, serpent head, flower), 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

detnsubjadvmodpunctdetnmod:posscasensubjparataxisadvmodxcomppunctcccasenmod:possoblnsubjconjdetcompoundpunctobjpunctnsubjacl:relclxcompccconjpunctrootTheDETmaidenNOUNcameVERBnearerADV,PUNCTtheDETflowerNOUN'sPARTglanceNOUNgrewVERBmoreADVlovingADJ,PUNCTbutCCONJunderADPherPRONleavesNOUNshePRONsawVERBtheDETserpentNOUN-PUNCTheadNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONroseVERBhissingVERBandCCONJcoilingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 maidendet
2maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4nearernearADVDegree=Cmp3 cameadvmod
5,,PUNCT_10 grewpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 flowerdet
7flowerflowerNOUNNumber=Sing9 glancenmod:poss
8's'sPART_7 flowercase
9glanceglanceNOUNNumber=Sing10 grewnsubj
10grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameparataxis
11moremoreADVDegree=Cmp12 lovingadvmod
12lovinglovingADJDegree=Pos10 grewxcomp
13,,PUNCT_19 sawpunct
14butbutCCONJ_19 sawcc
15underunderADP_17 leavescase
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 leavesnmod:poss
17leavesleafNOUNNumber=Plur19 sawobl
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 sawnsubj
19sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 grewconj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 headdet
21serpentserpentNOUNNumber=Sing23 headcompound
22--PUNCT_21 serpentpunct
23headheadNOUNNumber=Sing19 sawobj
24,,PUNCT_26 rosepunct
25whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel26 rosensubj
26roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 headacl:relcl
27hissinghissVERBVerbForm=Ger26 rosexcomp
28andandCCONJ_29 coilingcc
29coilingcoilVERBVerbForm=Ger27 hissingconj
30..PUNCT_3 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe maidennear propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2growpastthe flower's glanceloving propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seepastglancethe serpent headglance's leavesvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
4risepastthe serpent headtree rules
5hissgerundthe serpent head not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6coilgerundthe serpent head not said herevn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
7glancethe flowernom glance «act intransitive»: 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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