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title: The other maidens searched long in vain, till at last they caught si… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The other maidens searched long in vain, till at last they caught sight of the fleeing robber with his booty. Who acts: other maidens, 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 pragmatics of every c
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 96

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The other maidens searched long in vain, till at last they caught sight of the fleeing robber with his booty.

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**Who acts:** other maidens, Shouts · **What happens:** search, catch, flee, sight · **To what, where:** vain, sight, last, fleeing robber

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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 (other maidens, 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:pg74323:13:96
# text = The other maidens searched long in vain, till at last they caught sight of the fleeing robber with his booty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	booty	booty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | the other maidens |  |  | vain |  | long *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past | Shouts *= shout* | sight of the fleeing robber |  | last |  | with Arno's booty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sight=Theme at last=Asset |
| 3 | **flee** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | the fleeing robber |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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