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title: Ralf built a cottage near the spring, and when the new moon rose Ils… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Ralf built a cottage near the spring, and when the new moon rose Ilse awaited him by the mossy bank, leaned her head caressingly on his breast, and he heard her sweet prattle till the blushing dawn spread her radiance over the silver ripplets, and then the fairy virgin vanished in the blue air. Who 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 24

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Ralf built a cottage near the spring, and when the new moon rose Ilse awaited him by the mossy bank, leaned her head caressingly on his breast, and he heard her sweet prattle till the blushing dawn spread her radiance over the silver ripplets, and then the fairy virgin vanished in the blue air.

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**Who acts:** Ralf, new moon, Ilse, blushing dawn, fairy virgin · **What happens:** build, rise, await, learn, hear, spread · **To what, where:** cottage, Ralf, head, breast, sweet prattle, radiance

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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, new moon, Ilse, blushing dawn), 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:pg74323:12:24
# text = Ralf built a cottage near the spring, and when the new moon rose Ilse awaited him by the mossy bank, leaned her head caressingly on his breast, and he heard her sweet prattle till the blushing dawn spread her radiance over the silver ripplets, and then the fairy virgin vanished in the blue air.
1	Ralf	Ralf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mossy	mossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	caressingly	caressingly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	prattle	prattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	blushing	blushing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	ripplets	ripplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Ralf | a cottage |  |  | spring |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Product |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the new moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **await** | past | Ilse | Ralf |  |  |  | by the mossy bank | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | past | Ilse *not said here* | Ilse's head |  | Ralf's breast |  | caressingly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 5 | **hear** | past | Ralf | Ilse's sweet prattle |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prattle=Stimulus |
| 6 | **spread** | past | the blushing dawn | Ilse's radiance |  | the silver ripplets |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent radiance=Theme over ripplet=Destination |
| 7 | **vanish** | past | the fairy virgin |  |  | the blue air | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **prattle** |  | Ilse |  |  |  |  |  | nom prattle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **radiate** |  | Ilse |  |  |  |  |  | nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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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