--- title: Often the teamster stood and listened, and gazed into the darkness i… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Often the teamster stood and listened, and gazed into the darkness in search of some shelter, and called for help, and heard the echoes of his own voice ring deep in the snowy wood, but all remained desolate, dumb, and awful. Who acts: teamster. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teamster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:11:108 # text = Often the teamster stood and listened, and gazed into the darkness in search of some shelter, and called for help, and heard the echoes of his own voice ring deep in the snowy wood, but all remained desolate, dumb, and awful. 1 Often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 teamster teamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 deep deep ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 advmod _ _ 41 remained remain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 advcl _ _ 42 desolate desolate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 44 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the teamster | | | | | often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **listen** | past | the teamster *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **gaze** | past | the teamster *not said here* | | | | | in search of some shelter; into the darkness | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into darkness=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | the teamster *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | | 5 | **hear** | past | the teamster *not said here* | the echoes of teamster's own voice ring in the snowy wood | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer echo=Stimulus | | 6 | **remain** | participle | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **desolate** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **search** | | | some shelter | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/109/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/)