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title: And soon the crystal stream gladdened the thirsting upper town with… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And soon the crystal stream gladdened the thirsting upper town with an abundance of water. Who acts: crystal stream. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 18

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And soon the crystal stream gladdened the thirsting upper town with an abundance of water.

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**Who acts:** crystal stream · **What happens:** gladden, thirst · **To what, where:** thirsting upper town

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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 (crystal stream), 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:pg74323:15:18
# text = And soon the crystal stream gladdened the thirsting upper town with an abundance of water.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gladdened	gladden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	thirsting	thirst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
9	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gladden** | participle | the crystal stream | the thirsting upper town |  |  |  | with a abundance of water; soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent town=Patient with abundance=Instrument |
| 2 | **thirst** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot |

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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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