--- title: In the grey of the morning, as he awoke, he heard still the murmurin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: In the grey of the morning, as he awoke, he heard still the murmuring tones of the Princess, and as he turned to salute the princely maiden, he saw, instead of Ilse, a crystal-clear bubbling spring illuminated with the dawn. Who acts: Ralf. 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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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:12:21 # text = In the grey of the morning, as he awoke, he heard still the murmuring tones of the Princess, and as he turned to salute the princely maiden, he saw, instead of Ilse, a crystal-clear bubbling spring illuminated with the dawn. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 murmuring murmuring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 salute salute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 princely princely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 37 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 Ilse Ilse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 40 crystal crystal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 bubbling bubbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 45 illuminated illuminate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | Ralf | | | the grey of the morning | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grey=Location | | 2 | **hear** | past | Ralf | the murmuring tones of the Princess | | | still | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | | 3 | **turn** | past | Ralf | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **salute** | to-infinitive | Ralf *not said here* | the princely maiden | | | | | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | | 5 | **see** | past | Ralf | | | | | Ilse *parataxis* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **illuminate** | participle | | a crystal clear bubbling spring *not said here* | | | dawn | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **intonate** | | | the Princess | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/22/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/12/)