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title: The disc of the moon blinked only seldom through the dark clouds, wh… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The disc of the moon blinked only seldom through the dark clouds, which, restless, and ever succeeded by new ones, chased each other across the heavens. Who acts: disc. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 105

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The disc of the moon blinked only seldom through the dark clouds, which, restless, and ever succeeded by new ones, chased each other across the heavens.

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**Who acts:** disc · **What happens:** blink, succeed, chase · **To what, where:** dark clouds, other, heavens

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disc), 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:pg74323:11:105
# text = The disc of the moon blinked only seldom through the dark clouds, which, restless, and ever succeeded by new ones, chased each other across the heavens.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	blinked	blink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
28	across	across	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blink** | past | the disc of the moon |  |  | the dark clouds |  | seldom *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cloud=Location |
| 2 | **succeed** | participle |  |  |  |  | ever | by new ones | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chase** | participle |  | each other |  | the heavens |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent other=Theme across heaven=Trajectory |

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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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