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title: A maiden of the Huns, a disciple of Diana, roaming fearlessly throug… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A maiden of the Huns, a disciple of Diana, roaming fearlessly through the vale, hears from the Mägdesprung a cry of distress. Who acts: disciple, maiden, distress. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 22

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A maiden of the Huns, a disciple of Diana, roaming fearlessly through the vale, hears from the Mägdesprung a cry of distress.

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**Who acts:** disciple, maiden, distress · **What happens:** roam, hear, cry · **To what, where:** vale, cry, Mägdesprung

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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 (disciple, maiden, distress), 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:pg74323:10:22
# text = A maiden of the Huns, a disciple of Diana, roaming fearlessly through the vale, hears from the Mägdesprung a cry of distress.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Diana	Diana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
13	fearlessly	fearlessly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Mägdesprung	Mägdesprung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | gerund | a disciple of Diana *not said here* |  |  | the vale |  | fearlessly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through vale=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hear** | present | a maiden | a cry of distress |  | the Mägdesprung |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cry=Topic from mägdesprung=Source |
| 3 | **cry** |  | distress |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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