--- title: But she held him back; she stood lost in thought a moment; then pres… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: But she held him back; she stood lost in thought a moment; then pressing his hand warmly and glancing toward heaven, she approached fearlessly the tower, and stretched forth her hand firmly to pluck the flower. Who acts: glance. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Laude --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/59/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/) / 59 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 59 But she held him back; she stood lost in thought a moment; then pressing his hand warmly and glancing toward heaven, she approached fearlessly the tower, and stretched forth her hand firmly to pluck the flower. **Who acts:** glance · **What happens:** hold back, lose, press, glance, approach, stretch · **To what, where:** lover, glance, thought, hand, tower, flower This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glance), 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:pg74323:6:59 # text = But she held him back; she stood lost in thought a moment; then pressing his hand warmly and glancing toward heaven, she approached fearlessly the tower, and stretched forth her hand firmly to pluck the flower. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 warmly warmly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 glancing glance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 22 toward toward ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 approached approach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 fearlessly fearlessly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 33 forth forth ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold back** | past | glance | lover | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | past · passive | | glance | | thought | moment | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **press** | gerund | | lover's hand | | | then | warmly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 4 | **glance** | gerund | | | | | | toward heaven | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward heaven=Theme | | 5 | **approach** | past | glance | the tower | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | | 6 | **stretch** | participle | glance *not said here* | glance's hand | | | | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 7 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | glance *not said here* | the flower | | | | firmly *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/60/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/)