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title: You are trampling under foot the young growths, and with your scrapi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: You are trampling under foot the young growths, and with your scraping and digging you will destroy many a thriving tree." Who acts: You. 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 53

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You are trampling under foot the young growths, and with your scraping and digging you will destroy many a thriving tree."

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** trample, dig, destroy, thrive · **To what, where:** young growths, foot, many

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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 (You), 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:pg74323:15:53
# text = You are trampling under foot the young growths, and with your scraping and digging you will destroy many a thriving tree."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trampling	trample	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	growths	growth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	scraping	scraping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	thriving	thrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trample** | present · progressive | You | the young growths |  | foot |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dig** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **destroy** | future | you | many  a thriving tree |  |  |  | with your scraping | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent many=Patient with scraping=Instrument |
| 4 | **thrive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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