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title: And as the train came near, and the bride, ever in advance, would hi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the train came near, and the bride, ever in advance, would hide in the thicket, he seized her and bore her pitilessly away. Who acts: train, bride, Arno. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 95

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And as the train came near, and the bride, ever in advance, would hide in the thicket, he seized her and bore her pitilessly away.

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**Who acts:** train, bride, Arno · **What happens:** come, hide, seize, bear · **To what, where:** thicket, bride

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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 (train, bride, Arno), 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:pg74323:13:95
# text = And as the train came near, and the bride, ever in advance, would hide in the thicket, he seized her and bore her pitilessly away.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	pitilessly	pitilessly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the train |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | would | the bride and advance |  |  | the thicket |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location |
| 3 | **seize** | past | Arno | bride |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | past | Arno *not said here* | bride |  |  |  | away *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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