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title: I felt quite bewildered, and almost afraid in the midst of this odd… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I felt quite bewildered, and almost afraid in the midst of this odd _Gesellschaft_, and shuddered as I thought more dreadful additions would speedily be made to it. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 73

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I felt quite bewildered, and almost afraid in the midst of this odd \_Gesellschaft\_, and shuddered as I thought more dreadful additions would speedily be made to it.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** feel, bewilder, shudder, think, make · **To what, where:** dreadful additions, midst · **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 (I), 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:pg74323:12:74
# text = I felt quite bewildered, and almost afraid in the midst of this odd _Gesellschaft_, and shuddered as I thought more dreadful additions would speedily be made to it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
14	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Gesellschaft	Gesellschaft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shuddered	shudder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	additions	addition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bewilder** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shudder** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | would · passive |  | dreadful additions | midst |  |  | speedily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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