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title: Ralf "fell in love" with Trude, and a blissful summer was spent gath… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Ralf "fell in love" with Trude, and a blissful summer was spent gathering wild fruits and flowers and hunting birds' nests among the mountains. Who acts: Ralf. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 106

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Ralf "fell in love" with Trude, and a blissful summer was spent gathering wild fruits and flowers and hunting birds' nests among the mountains.

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**Who acts:** Ralf · **What happens:** fall, spend, gather, hunt · **To what, where:** love, blissful summer, wild fruits, nests, mountains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ralf), 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:pg74323:12:107
# text = Ralf "fell in love" with Trude, and a blissful summer was spent gathering wild fruits and flowers and hunting birds' nests among the mountains.
1	Ralf	Ralf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Trude	Trude	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blissful	blissful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | Ralf |  |  | love |  | with Trude | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | past · passive |  | a blissful summer |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 3 | **gather** | gerund |  | wild fruits and flowers |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund |  | birds's nests |  | the mountains |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nest=Theme among 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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