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title: "How glorious! how wonderful!" he thought, as he stood still and gaz… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "How glorious! how wonderful!" he thought, as he stood still and gazed around him; "and what a mystery it is that only man is so often shut out from the universal enjoyment of creation. Who acts: wanderer, mystery. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 83

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"How glorious! how wonderful!" he thought, as he stood still and gazed around him; "and what a mystery it is that only man is so often shut out from the universal enjoyment of creation.

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**Who acts:** wanderer, mystery · **What happens:** think, stand, gaze, be, enjoy · **To what, where:** mystery, universal enjoyment, creation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wanderer, mystery), 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:pg74323:10:83
# text = "How glorious! how wonderful!" he thought, as he stood still and gazed around him; "and what a mystery it is that only man is so often shut out from the universal enjoyment of creation.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	often	often	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wanderer |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | wanderer |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gaze** | past | wanderer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around wanderer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · passive | a mystery *not said here* | mystery |  | the universal enjoyment of creation |  | man *nsubj:pass*; often, shut *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **enjoy** *in a quote* |  |  | creation |  |  |  |  | nom enjoyment «feeling 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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