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title: But as the sun rose higher, as all Nature bloomed and sent forth her… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the sun rose higher, as all Nature bloomed and sent forth her frankincense of praise, and the streams murmured of peace, he grew more composed. Who acts: sun, streams, wanderer. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its depe
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 82

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But as the sun rose higher, as all Nature bloomed and sent forth her frankincense of praise, and the streams murmured of peace, he grew more composed.

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**Who acts:** sun, streams, wanderer · **What happens:** rise, bloom, send, murmur, grow, compose · **To what, where:** Nature, frankincense

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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 (sun, streams, wanderer), 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:pg74323:10:82
# text = But as the sun rose higher, as all Nature bloomed and sent forth her frankincense of praise, and the streams murmured of peace, he grew more composed.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
6	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	Nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | as all Nature; high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bloom** | participle |  | all Nature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  | sun's frankincense of praise |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frankincense=Theme |
| 4 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the streams |  |  |  |  | of peace | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | past | wanderer |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **compose** | participle | wanderer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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