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title: The water sprang gaily out of the soft moss, and murmured ever in a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The water sprang gaily out of the soft moss, and murmured ever in a thousand leaps and tiny waterfalls over the moss-grown rocks adown the vale. Who acts: water. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 22

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The water sprang gaily out of the soft moss, and murmured ever in a thousand leaps and tiny waterfalls over the moss-grown rocks adown the vale.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** spring, murmur, grow · **To what, where:** soft moss, vale, thousand leaps

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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 (water), 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:pg74323:12:22
# text = The water sprang gaily out of the soft moss, and murmured ever in a thousand leaps and tiny waterfalls over the moss-grown rocks adown the vale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	leaps	leap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	adown	adown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | the water |  |  | the soft moss |  | gaily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out moss=Trajectory |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the water *not said here* | the vale |  | thousand leaps and tiny waterfalls | ever | over the rocks adown | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leap=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | moss *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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