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title: His followers remained on the summit of the hill, and followed with… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: His followers remained on the summit of the hill, and followed with flashing eyes their hero king, that they might be ready to hasten to his aid if in danger. Who acts: followers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 57

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His followers remained on the summit of the hill, and followed with flashing eyes their hero king, that they might be ready to hasten to his aid if in danger.

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**Who acts:** followers · **What happens:** remain, follow, flash, be, hasten · **To what, where:** summit, aid

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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 (followers), 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:pg74323:11:57
# text = His followers remained on the summit of the hill, and followed with flashing eyes their hero king, that they might be ready to hasten to his aid if in danger.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | wind's followers |  |  | the summit of the hill |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on summit=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with flashing eyes  followers's hero king | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | might | followers *= follower* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hasten** | to-infinitive | followers *= follower* *not said here* |  |  | wind's aid |  | danger *advcl* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to aid=Destination |

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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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