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title: Aurora showed her gaily laughing and blushing face above the green m… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Aurora showed her gaily laughing and blushing face above the green mountains, a balsamic freshness floated over the valleys and streams, the peaks of the woody heights swam in the blue ether, and the dew-bathed mountain flowers sparkled in the sun's golden splendour. Who acts: Aurora, peaks. A sente
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 77

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Aurora showed her gaily laughing and blushing face above the green mountains, a balsamic freshness floated over the valleys and streams, the peaks of the woody heights swam in the blue ether, and the dew-bathed mountain flowers sparkled in the sun's golden splendour.

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**Who acts:** Aurora, peaks · **What happens:** show, blush, float, swim, bath, sparkle · **To what, where:** gaily laughing, face, green mountains, balsamic freshness, valleys, blue ether

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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 (Aurora, peaks), 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:pg74323:10:77
# text = Aurora showed her gaily laughing and blushing face above the green mountains, a balsamic freshness floated over the valleys and streams, the peaks of the woody heights swam in the blue ether, and the dew-bathed mountain flowers sparkled in the sun's golden splendour.
1	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	laughing	laughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blushing	blush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	balsamic	balsamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	freshness	freshness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	woody	woody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
38	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	bathed	bath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
41	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Aurora | Aurora's gaily laughing and a balsamic freshness |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent laughing=Recipient |
| 2 | **blush** | gerund | Aurora *not said here* | face |  | the green mountains |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **float** | participle |  | a balsamic freshness *not said here* |  | the valleys and streams |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over valley=Trajectory |
| 4 | **swim** | past | the peaks of the woody heights | the valleys and streams *not said here* |  | the blue ether |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme valley=Trajectory |
| 5 | **bath** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | dew *compound* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sparkle** | participle · passive |  | the bathed mountain flowers |  | the sun's golden splendour |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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