--- title: At these words the strange apparition touched a shrub that stretched… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: At these words the strange apparition touched a shrub that stretched forth its dried, thorny branches, when instantly leaves and buds burst forth, and soon the whole shrub was loaded with most beautiful roses, that breathed forth a wondrous and unwonted perfume. Who acts: strange apparition, shrub, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/119/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/) / 119 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 119 At these words the strange apparition touched a shrub that stretched forth its dried, thorny branches, when instantly leaves and buds burst forth, and soon the whole shrub was loaded with most beautiful roses, that breathed forth a wondrous and unwonted perfume. **Who acts:** strange apparition, shrub, buds, most beautiful roses · **What happens:** touch, stretch, dry, leave, burst, load · **To what, where:** shrub, words, whole shrub, wondrous perfume 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 (strange apparition, shrub, buds, most beautiful roses), 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:pg74323:11:119 # text = At these words the strange apparition touched a shrub that stretched forth its dried, thorny branches, when instantly leaves and buds burst forth, and soon the whole shrub was loaded with most beautiful roses, that breathed forth a wondrous and unwonted perfume. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 apparition apparition NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 shrub shrub NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 forth forth ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 thorny thorny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 20 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 burst burst VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 forth forth ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 shrub shrub NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 loaded load VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 amod _ _ 36 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 breathed breathe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 forth forth ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 43 wondrous wondrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 unwonted unwonted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ _ 46 perfume perfume NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | the strange apparition | a shrub and thorny branches | | this words | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shrub=Co-Theme | | 2 | **stretch** | past | a shrub and thorny branches | | | | | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **dry** | participle | a shrub and thorny branches *not said here* | | | | | apparition *nmod:poss* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | present | | | | | | instantly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **burst** | present | buds | | | | | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **load** | past · passive | | the whole shrub | | | | with most beautiful roses; soon *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with rose=Theme | | 7 | **breathe** | past | most beautiful roses | a wondrous perfume | | | | forth *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/118/) - next →: [Legends and Tales., part 11, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/1/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/)