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title: Judge of his astonishment and joy, as he saw the way marked out over… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Judge of his astonishment and joy, as he saw the way marked out over hills and through ravines, by which the spring could be conducted with little difficulty to the place required. Who acts: Judge. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 15

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Judge of his astonishment and joy, as he saw the way marked out over hills and through ravines, by which the spring could be conducted with little difficulty to the place required.

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**Who acts:** Judge · **What happens:** see, mark out, conduct, require, astonish · **To what, where:** way, hills, spring, place

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judge), 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:pg74323:15:15
# text = Judge of his astonishment and joy, as he saw the way marked out over hills and through ravines, by which the spring could be conducted with little difficulty to the place required.
1	Judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ravines	ravine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Judge of Judge's astonishment and joy | the way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mark out** | participle |  | the way *not said here* |  | hills and ravines |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent over hill=Destination |
| 3 | **conduct** | could · passive |  | the spring |  |  |  | with little difficulty; to the place; which *obl* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by which=Destination |
| 4 | **require** | participle |  | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **astonish** |  | Judge |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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