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title: A lustre like a sunset in spring, or an Alpine glow on the eternal s… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A lustre like a sunset in spring, or an Alpine glow on the eternal snow, floated around the heavenly form, and breathed on the rigid snow masses a soft glimmer like a fairy light. Who acts: lustre. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 116

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A lustre like a sunset in spring, or an Alpine glow on the eternal snow, floated around the heavenly form, and breathed on the rigid snow masses a soft glimmer like a fairy light.

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**Who acts:** lustre · **What happens:** float, breathe, mass · **To what, where:** heavenly form, rigid snow, soft glimmer

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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 (lustre), 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:pg74323:11:116
# text = A lustre like a sunset in spring, or an Alpine glow on the eternal snow, floated around the heavenly form, and breathed on the rigid snow masses a soft glimmer like a fairy light.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	rigid	rigid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	masses	mass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | participle |  |  |  | the heavenly form |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around form=Trajectory |
| 2 | **breathe** | participle |  |  |  | the rigid snow |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on snow=Destination |
| 3 | **mass** | present | a lustre like a sunset in spring | a soft glimmer |  |  |  | like a fairy light | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glimmer=Theme |

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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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