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title: But see! see! the enemy grows weak; now he totters, our king wields… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But see! see! the enemy grows weak; now he totters, our king wields more quickly more mightily his arm! Who acts: you, enemy, king. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 63

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But see! see! the enemy grows weak; now he totters, our king wields more quickly more mightily his arm!

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**Who acts:** you, enemy, king · **What happens:** see, grow, totter, wield · **To what, where:** totters

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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 (you, enemy, king), 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:pg74323:11:63
# text = But see! see! the enemy grows weak; now he totters, our king wields more quickly more mightily his arm!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	totters	totter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wields	wield	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	mightily	mightily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	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 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the enemy |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **totter** |  | enemy |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wield** | present | our king | totters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent totter=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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