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title: She raised her jasper-blue eyes, looked kindly on him, and beckoned… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She raised her jasper-blue eyes, looked kindly on him, and beckoned him to approach and gather the shining flower. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 116

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She raised her jasper-blue eyes, looked kindly on him, and beckoned him to approach and gather the shining flower.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** raise, look, beckon, approach, gather, shine · **To what, where:** blue eyes, light, shining flower

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:10:117
# text = She raised her jasper-blue eyes, looked kindly on him, and beckoned him to approach and gather the shining flower.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	jasper	jasper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | moon | moon's blue eyes |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | on light; kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme |
| 3 | **beckon** | past | moon *not said here* | light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **approach** | to-infinitive | moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **gather** | infinitive | moon *not said here* | the shining flower |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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