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title: Poor Trude, from the balcony by her mother's side, saw her faithless… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Trude, from the balcony by her mother's side, saw her faithless Ralf carried down the torrent, threw herself over after him, and when the flood had subsided the widow found them in each other's arms, washed up on the banks of the river. Who acts: Poor Trude, faithless Ralf, widow. A sentence of
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 119

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Poor Trude, from the balcony by her mother's side, saw her faithless Ralf carried down the torrent, threw herself over after him, and when the flood had subsided the widow found them in each other's arms, washed up on the banks of the river.

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**Who acts:** Poor Trude, faithless Ralf, widow · **What happens:** see, carry down, throw over, subside, find, wash up · **To what, where:** torrent, Trude, flood, floods, other arms, banks · **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 (Poor Trude, faithless Ralf, widow), 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:pg74323:12:120
# text = Poor Trude, from the balcony by her mother's side, saw her faithless Ralf carried down the torrent, threw herself over after him, and when the flood had subsided the widow found them in each other's arms, washed up on the banks of the river.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Trude	Trude	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Ralf	Ralf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	subsided	subside	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Poor Trude |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **carry down** | past | Trude's faithless Ralf | the torrent |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torrent=Theme |
| 3 | **throw over** | past | Trude's faithless Ralf *not said here* | Trude |  |  | after Ralf |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 4 | **subside** | past · perfect · passive |  | the flood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | past | the widow | floods *= flood* |  | each other arms |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 6 | **wash up** | participle |  | each other arms *not said here* |  | the banks of the river |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: 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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