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title: Shouts of merriment and scraps of song rang over the laughing landsc… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Shouts of merriment and scraps of song rang over the laughing landscape to the wood where Arno lay concealed, watching the charming scene. Who acts: Shouts. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 93

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Shouts of merriment and scraps of song rang over the laughing landscape to the wood where Arno lay concealed, watching the charming scene.

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**Who acts:** Shouts · **What happens:** ring, laugh, conceal, watch, shout · **To what, where:** laughing landscape, Arno, charming scene, merriment

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shouts), 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:pg74323:13:93
# text = Shouts of merriment and scraps of song rang over the laughing landscape to the wood where Arno lay concealed, watching the charming scene.
1	Shouts	shout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	Arno	Arno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | Shouts of merriment and scraps of song |  |  | the laughing landscape |  | to the wood | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over landscape=Location |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | Arno |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | Shouts of merriment and scraps of song *not said here* | the charming scene |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme |
| 5 | **shout** |  |  | merriment and scraps of song |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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