--- title: Ilse laid her lovely head upon Ralf's breast, and gazed up into his… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Ilse laid her lovely head upon Ralf's breast, and gazed up into his face with her wonderful and faithful eyes; Ralf laid his hand upon her shoulder, and beautiful Ilse began her tale. Who acts: Ilse, Ralf, beautiful Ilse. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilse, Ralf, beautiful Ilse), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:12:17 # text = Ilse laid her lovely head upon Ralf's breast, and gazed up into his face with her wonderful and faithful eyes; Ralf laid his hand upon her shoulder, and beautiful Ilse began her tale. 1 Ilse Ilse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laid lay 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 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 Ralf Ralf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 19 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Ralf Ralf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Ilse Ilse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | Ilse | Ilse's lovely head | | Ralf's breast | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon breast=Destination | | 2 | **gaze up** | past | Ilse *not said here* | | | | | with Ilse's wonderful eyes; into Ralf's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | past | Ralf | Ralf's hand | | Ilse's shoulder | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon shoulder=Destination | | 4 | **begin** | past | beautiful Ilse | Ilse's tale | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** | | Ilse | | | | | | nom tale «communication 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/18/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/)