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title: Several years passed away; but every St. John's Day the forester saw… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Several years passed away; but every St. John's Day the forester saw and spoke with the same three strangers. Who acts: Several years, Day. 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 clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 57

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Several years passed away; but every St. John's Day the forester saw and spoke with the same three strangers.

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**Who acts:** Several years, Day · **What happens:** pass away, see, speak · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several years, Day), 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:pg74323:15:57
# text = Several years passed away; but every St. John's Day the forester saw and spoke with the same three strangers.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forester	forester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | past | Several years |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | every John  St.'s Day |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | every John  St.'s Day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the same three strangers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with stranger=Co-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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