--- title: Seeing Eva seated, and not springing up as usual to welcome him, he… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Seeing Eva seated, and not springing up as usual to welcome him, he supposed she had fallen asleep--and so she had; but a sight of her face revealed the dreadful truth. Who acts: Eva, Henry, sight. 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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 (Eva, Henry, sight), 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:pg74323:20:134 # text = Seeing Eva seated, and not springing up as usual to welcome him, he supposed she had fallen asleep--and so she had; but a sight of her face revealed the dreadful truth. 1 Seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 2 Eva Eva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 springing spring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 welcome welcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 supposed suppose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 xcomp _ _ 20 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 revealed reveal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | Eva *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **seat** | past | Eva | | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 3 | **not** **spring up** | gerund | Eva *not said here* | | | | | as usual | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | Eva *not said here* | Henry | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **suppose** | past | Henry | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past · perfect | Eva | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | past | Eva | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **reveal** | past | a sight of Eva's face | the dreadful truth | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | | 9 | **sight** | | | Eva's face | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/135/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/20/)