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title: It seemed to him by these reflections as if a long, giant, shadowy f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to him by these reflections as if a long, giant, shadowy form brushed past him in the twilight, whispering in his ear, "Do not despair." Who acts: It, long giant shadowy form. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, with its de
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 71

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It seemed to him by these reflections as if a long, giant, shadowy form brushed past him in the twilight, whispering in his ear, "Do not despair."

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**Who acts:** It, long giant shadowy form · **What happens:** seem, brush, whisper, not despair · **To what, where:** trouble, twilight, ear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, long giant shadowy form), 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:pg74323:14:72
# text = It seemed to him by these reflections as if a long, giant, shadowy form brushed past him in the twilight, whispering in his ear, "Do not despair."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brushed	brush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
18	past	past	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	despair	despair	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | trouble |  |  | by this reflections | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **brush** | past | a long giant shadowy form |  |  | the twilight |  | past trouble | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past he=Destination |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  | trouble's ear |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **despair** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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