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title: Fountains played, white-robed maidens moved among the fruit and flow… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Fountains played, white-robed maidens moved among the fruit and flowers, or reclined on banks of violets and roses. Who acts: Fountains, robed maidens. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 87

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Fountains played, white-robed maidens moved among the fruit and flowers, or reclined on banks of violets and roses.

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**Who acts:** Fountains, robed maidens · **What happens:** play, robe, move, recline · **To what, where:** fruit, banks

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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 (Fountains, robed maidens), 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:pg74323:12:88
# text = Fountains played, white-robed maidens moved among the fruit and flowers, or reclined on banks of violets and roses.
1	Fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	robed	robe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	reclined	recline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Fountains |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **robe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | past | robed maidens |  |  | the fruit and flowers |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among fruit=Trajectory |
| 4 | **recline** | participle | robed maidens *not said here* |  |  | banks of violets and roses |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |

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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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