--- title: She bows to thee in graceful greeting, she offers thee the full lips… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: She bows to thee in graceful greeting, she offers thee the full lips to kiss, she beckons, she spreads out the arms. Who acts: guard. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/4/84/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/4/) / 84 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 84 She bows to thee in graceful greeting, she offers thee the full lips to kiss, she beckons, she spreads out the arms. **Who acts:** guard · **What happens:** bow, offer, kiss, beckon, spread out · **To what, where:** graceful greeting, full lips, thee, arms This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guard), 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:pg74323:4:84 # text = She bows to thee in graceful greeting, she offers thee the full lips to kiss, she beckons, she spreads out the arms. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bows bow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP TO _ 4 case _ _ 4 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 graceful graceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 iobj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 beckons beckon VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow** | present | guard | | | graceful greeting | | to thee | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thou=Theme | | 2 | **offer** | present | guard | the full lips | thee | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal lip=Theme | | 3 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | guard *not said here* | the full lips *not said here* | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **beckon** | present | guard | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spread out** | present | guard | the arms | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/4/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/4/85/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/4/)