--- title: Silently admiring, Romar gazed at the sleeping beauty, and the sweet… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Silently admiring, Romar gazed at the sleeping beauty, and the sweetest emotions filled his breast, till the stranger opened her eyes and beheld him, uttered a scream of terror, sprang up, and fled into the thickest of the forest. Who acts: Romar, sweetest emotions, stranger, terror. 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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 (Romar, sweetest emotions, stranger, terror), 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:pg74323:16:23 # text = Silently admiring, Romar gazed at the sleeping beauty, and the sweetest emotions filled his breast, till the stranger opened her eyes and beheld him, uttered a scream of terror, sprang up, and fled into the thickest of the forest. 1 Silently silently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 admiring admire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Romar Romar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ _ 9 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 sweetest sweet ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 emotions emotion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 scream scream NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 sprang sprang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 thickest thick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **admire** | gerund | Romar *not said here* | | | | | silently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **gaze** | past | Romar | | | | | at the sleeping beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fill** | past | the sweetest emotions | Romar's breast | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breast=Patient | | 5 | **open** | past | the stranger | race's eyes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 6 | **behold** | past | the stranger *not said here* | Romar | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 7 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the stranger *not said here* | a scream of terror | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scream=Topic | | 8 | **sprang up** | infinitive | the stranger *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **flee** | past | Romar *not said here* | | | the thickest of the forest | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into thick=Initial\_Location | | 10 | **scream** | | terror | | | | | | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/23/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/)