Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 59
But she held him back; she stood lost in thought a moment; then pressing his hand warmly and glancing toward heaven, she approached fearlessly the tower, and stretched forth her hand firmly to pluck the flower.
Who acts: glance · What happens: hold back, lose, press, glance, approach, stretch · To what, where: lover, glance, thought, hand, tower, 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux:pass |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 held | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 thought | case |
| 11 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 pressing | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 pressing | advmod |
| 16 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lost | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pressing | obj |
| 19 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 16 pressing | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glancing | cc |
| 21 | glancing | glance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 pressing | conj |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 23 heaven | case |
| 23 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glancing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 approached | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 approached | nsubj |
| 26 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pressing | conj |
| 27 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 29 tower | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tower | det |
| 29 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 approached | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stretched | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stretched | cc |
| 32 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 held | conj |
| 33 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 stretched | advmod |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stretched | obj |
| 36 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 38 pluck | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 pluck | mark |
| 38 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 stretched | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 flower | det |
| 40 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pluck | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold back | past | glance | lover | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | glance | thought | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | press | gerund | lover's hand | then | warmly property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | glance | gerund | toward heaven | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward heaven=Theme | |||||
| 5 | approach | past | glance | the tower | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stretch | participle | glance not said here | glance's hand | forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 7 | pluck | to-infinitive | glance not said here | the flower | firmly property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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