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title: The mother stooped and covered his head and face with passionate kis… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother stooped and covered his head and face with passionate kisses, and Henry, springing forward, enclosed them both in a tender embrace. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 70

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The mother stooped and covered his head and face with passionate kisses, and Henry, springing forward, enclosed them both in a tender embrace.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** stoop, cover, spring, enclose · **To what, where:** Henry, head, kisses, tender embrace

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg74323:18:70
# text = The mother stooped and covered his head and face with passionate kisses, and Henry, springing forward, enclosed them both in a tender embrace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	passionate	passionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	both	both	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	embrace	embrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | the mother | Henry |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cover** | past | the mother *not said here* | fellow's head and face |  |  |  | with passionate kisses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with kiss=Theme |
| 3 | **spring** | gerund | the mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enclose** | past | the mother *not said here* | kisses *= kiss* |  | a tender embrace |  | both *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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