--- title: How her bridal veil and ribbons fluttered and shimmered in the wind… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: How her bridal veil and ribbons fluttered and shimmered in the wind and sun, as she in the joy of her heart, light of foot as a fawn, flew over the meadow, pursued by her laughing companions. Who acts: bridal veil. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridal veil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:13:92 # text = How her bridal veil and ribbons fluttered and shimmered in the wind and sun, as she in the joy of her heart, light of foot as a fawn, flew over the meadow, pursued by her laughing companions. 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 bridal bridal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 veil veil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 ribbons ribbon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 fluttered flutter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 shimmered shimmer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fawn fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 pursued pursue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 amod _ _ 41 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flutter** | participle | party's bridal veil and ribbons | | | the wind and sun | | the joy party of party's heart and light of foot as a fawn *parataxis* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | | 2 | **shimmer** | participle | party's bridal veil and ribbons *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | past | | | | the meadow | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Location | | 4 | **pursue** | participle | | the meadow *not said here* | | | | by party's laughing companions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by companion=Trajectory | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **joy** | | | party's heart | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **light** | | | foot | | | | as a fawn | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient as=obl | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/93/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/)