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title: The Virgin Mary, for it was she herself, broke off clusters of the r… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Virgin Mary, for it was she herself, broke off clusters of the roses and formed a drinking-cup, and as the teamster would return it filled with wine, the vision had vanished. Who acts: Mary, Virgin Mary, vision. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends an
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 1

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The Virgin Mary, for it was she herself, broke off clusters of the roses and formed a drinking-cup, and as the teamster would return it filled with wine, the vision had vanished.

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**Who acts:** Mary, Virgin Mary, vision · **What happens:** be, break off, form, return, fill, vanish · **To what, where:** herself, clusters, drinking cup, cup

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mary, Virgin Mary, vision), 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:pg74323:12:1
# text = The Virgin Mary, for it was she herself, broke off clusters of the roses and formed a drinking-cup, and as the teamster would return it filled with wine, the vision had vanished.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	teamster	teamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mary | herself *= she* |  |  |  | she *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break off** | past | the Virgin Mary | clusters of the roses |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cluster=Patient |
| 3 | **form** | past | the Virgin Mary *not said here* | a drinking cup |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cup=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | would |  | cup |  |  |  | as the teamster | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with wine | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wine=Instrument |
| 6 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the vision |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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