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title: The manly youths kissed the mother's emaciated hand and silently ret… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The manly youths kissed the mother's emaciated hand and silently retired, but Eva flung herself sobbing on her breast, and refused to be comforted. Who acts: manly youths, Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 78

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The manly youths kissed the mother's emaciated hand and silently retired, but Eva flung herself sobbing on her breast, and refused to be comforted.

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**Who acts:** manly youths, Eva · **What happens:** kiss, emaciate, fling, sob, refuse, not comfort · **To what, where:** emaciated hand, mother, breast

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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 (manly youths, Eva), 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:pg74323:18:78
# text = The manly youths kissed the mother's emaciated hand and silently retired, but Eva flung herself sobbing on her breast, and refused to be comforted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	emaciated	emaciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | the manly youths | the mother's emaciated hand |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **emaciate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fling** | past | Eva | mother |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 4 | **sob** | gerund | Eva *not said here* |  |  | mother's breast |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **refuse** | past | the manly youths *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **comfort** | to-infinitive · passive | the manly youths *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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