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title: The Princess could only put her mouth to his to take the cherry, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess could only put her mouth to his to take the cherry, and when she had the fruit between her lips--and his kiss with it--could not at the moment say, "_J'y pense_." Who acts: Princess, Otto. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 82

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The Princess could only put her mouth to his to take the cherry, and when she had the fruit between her lips--and his kiss with it--could not at the moment say, "\_J'y pense\_."

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**Who acts:** Princess, Otto · **What happens:** put, take, have, not say, kiss · **To what, where:** mouth, cherry, fruit, J'y pense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Otto), 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:pg74323:13:82
# text = The Princess could only put her mouth to his to take the cherry, and when she had the fruit between her lips--and his kiss with it--could not at the moment say, "_J'y pense_."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
36	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	J'y	J'y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	pense	pense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | could | the Princess | Princess's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | the cherry |  |  |  | Otto *nmod:poss* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cherry=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Princess | the fruit |  |  |  | between Princess's lips; Otto's kiss with mouth *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | could |  | J'y pense |  |  | moment |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pense=Topic |
| 5 | **kiss** |  | Otto |  |  |  |  | with mouth | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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