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title: "And many a fir tree's deepest shade Falls o'er the crystal stream;… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "And many a fir tree's deepest shade Falls o'er the crystal stream; Enchanted by the pure mermaid, Their fate to moan they seem." Who acts: Falls, fir tree. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 35

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"And many a fir tree's deepest shade Falls o'er the crystal stream; Enchanted by the pure mermaid, Their fate to moan they seem."

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**Who acts:** Falls, fir tree · **What happens:** enchant, moan, seem, shade, fate · **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 (Falls, fir tree), 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:pg74323:12:36
# text = "And many a fir tree's deepest shade Falls o'er the crystal stream; Enchanted by the pure mermaid, Their fate to moan they seem."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
11	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	moan	moan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	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 | **enchant** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the pure mermaid | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **moan** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | Falls |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shade** *in a quote* |  | a fir tree |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **fate** *in a quote* |  | Falls |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: 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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