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title: She recognizes the voice that cries for aid, and her eagle eye perce… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She recognizes the voice that cries for aid, and her eagle eye perceives her friend being dragged away by two mountain robbers. Who acts: maiden, voice, eagle eye, two mountain robbers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dep
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 23

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She recognizes the voice that cries for aid, and her eagle eye perceives her friend being dragged away by two mountain robbers.

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**Who acts:** maiden, voice, eagle eye, two mountain robbers · **What happens:** recognize, cry, perceive, drag away · **To what, where:** voice, friend

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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 (maiden, voice, eagle eye, two mountain robbers), 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:pg74323:10:23
# text = She recognizes the voice that cries for aid, and her eagle eye perceives her friend being dragged away by two mountain robbers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recognizes	recognize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	perceives	perceive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | present | maiden | the voice |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the voice |  |  |  |  | for aid | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for aid=Recipient |
| 3 | **perceive** | present | maiden's eagle eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **drag away** | gerund · passive | two mountain robbers | maiden's friend |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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