Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 56
The lovers gazed a moment, surprised, at each other; and, as if the glance had filled him with enthusiasm, the youth then hastened forward, and raised his arm to gather the flower.
Who acts: lovers · What happens: gaze, fill, hasten, raise, gather · To what, where: glance, youth, arm, 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 (lovers), 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 lovers | det |
| 2 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gazed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
| 7 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 each | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 surprised | appos |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 filled | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 filled | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 filled | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 glance | det |
| 18 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 filled | aux |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gazed | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 filled | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 enthusiasm | case |
| 23 | enthusiasm | enthusiasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 youth | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youth | det |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enthusiasm | appos |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 hastened | advmod |
| 28 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 youth | acl |
| 29 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 28 hastened | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 raised | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 raised | cc |
| 32 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazed | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 arm | nmod:poss |
| 34 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 raised | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 gather | mark |
| 36 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 raised | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 flower | det |
| 38 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gather | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | the lovers | moment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fill a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the glance | with enthusiasm; lover obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the youth not said here | then | forward property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | raise | past | the lovers not said here | lover's arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gather | to-infinitive | the lovers not said here | the flower | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
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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