Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 37
Then she drew back her hand, and dared not touch the flower, and as she fled she heard still the voice, "Only pluck me!"
Who acts: glance · What happens: draw back, touch, flee, hear, pluck · To what, where: hand, flower, 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 (glance), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 touch | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 touch | cc |
| 9 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 touch | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dared | advmod |
| 11 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drew | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flower | det |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fled | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 fled | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fled | nsubj |
| 18 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fled | conj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 voice | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pluck | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 pluck | punct |
| 26 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 27 pluck | advmod |
| 27 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fled | ccomp |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 pluck | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 pluck | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 pluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | glance | glance's hand | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | past | glance not said here | the flower | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flower=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | glance | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | glance | the voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pluck in a quote | infinitive | glance not said here | 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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