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title: The impatient animal pawed and stamped, and his rider returning, fou… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The impatient animal pawed and stamped, and his rider returning, found a glittering piece of silver ore laid bare. Who acts: rider, impatient animal. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 30

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The impatient animal pawed and stamped, and his rider returning, found a glittering piece of silver ore laid bare.

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**Who acts:** rider, impatient animal · **What happens:** paw, stamp, return, find, glitter, lay · **To what, where:** impatient animal, glittering piece

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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 (rider, impatient animal), 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:pg74323:11:30
# text = The impatient animal pawed and stamped, and his rider returning, found a glittering piece of silver ore laid bare.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	pawed	paw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
21	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paw** | participle |  | the impatient animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stamp** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **return** | gerund | animal's rider *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | the impatient animal | a glittering piece of silver ore |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | participle |  | a glittering piece of silver ore *not said here* |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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