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title: Hesitating and with fear she followed the powerful sovereign; gnomes… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Hesitating and with fear she followed the powerful sovereign; gnomes and cobolds attended everywhere with homage. Who acts: gnomes, Queen. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, 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 11, sentence 10

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Hesitating and with fear she followed the powerful sovereign; gnomes and cobolds attended everywhere with homage.

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**Who acts:** gnomes, Queen · **What happens:** hesitate, follow, attend · **To what, where:** powerful sovereign

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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 (gnomes, Queen), 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:pg74323:12:10
# text = Hesitating and with fear she followed the powerful sovereign; gnomes and cobolds attended everywhere with homage.
1	Hesitating	hesitate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
11	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cobolds	cobold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | gerund | gnomes and cobolds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Queen | the powerful sovereign |  |  |  | with fear | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme |
| 3 | **attend** | past | gnomes and cobolds |  |  |  |  | with homage; everywhere *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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