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title: She rose one morning before daybreak, and went out to gather wood, w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She rose one morning before daybreak, and went out to gather wood, when she saw a fire burning on the mountain. Who acts: discovery, fire. 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 every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 32

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She rose one morning before daybreak, and went out to gather wood, when she saw a fire burning on the mountain.

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**Who acts:** discovery, fire · **What happens:** rise, go out, gather, see, burn · **To what, where:** daybreak, wood, fire, mountain

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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 (discovery, fire), 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:pg74323:11:32
# text = She rose one morning before daybreak, and went out to gather wood, when she saw a fire burning on the mountain.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | discovery |  |  | daybreak | morning |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before daybreak=Location |
| 2 | **go out** | past | discovery *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive | discovery *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | discovery | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
| 5 | **burn** | gerund | a fire *not said here* |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location |

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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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