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title: he quickened his pace with a firmer tread and lighter heart. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: he quickened his pace with a firmer tread and lighter heart. Who acts: Herze. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 96

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he quickened his pace with a firmer tread and lighter heart.

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**Who acts:** Herze · **What happens:** quicken · **To what, where:** pace

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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 (Herze), 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:pg74323:10:97
# text = he quickened his pace with a firmer tread and lighter heart.
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	quickened	quicken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	firmer	firm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quicken** | past | Herze | Herze's pace |  |  |  | with a firmer tread and lighter heart | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pace=Patient with tread=Instrument |

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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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