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title: In the latter rock one sees the impressions of giant feet, and Roman… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the latter rock one sees the impressions of giant feet, and Romance attempts to account for them. Who acts: Romance attempts. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 17

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In the latter rock one sees the impressions of giant feet, and Romance attempts to account for them.

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**Who acts:** Romance attempts · **What happens:** see, account, impress · **To what, where:** impressions, latter rock, giant feet

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romance attempts), 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:pg74323:10:17
# text = In the latter rock one sees the impressions of giant feet, and Romance attempts to account for them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	impressions	impression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	Romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present |  | the impressions of giant feet |  | the latter rock |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer impression=Stimulus |
| 2 | **account** |  | Romance attempts |  |  |  |  | for feet *= foot* | tree rules |
| 3 | **impress** |  |  | giant feet |  |  |  |  | nom impression «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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