--- title: Dark cypresses rose behind the stone walls, and fig trees thrust the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Dark cypresses rose behind the stone walls, and fig trees thrust their wonderfully crooked fingers forward, as if they would draw him in; shining lizards crept up the wall, glanced at him with their glittering eyes, and then wriggled hurriedly into the garden, which he could see through a grated gat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/) / 65 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 65 Dark cypresses rose behind the stone walls, and fig trees thrust their wonderfully crooked fingers forward, as if they would draw him in; shining lizards crept up the wall, glanced at him with their glittering eyes, and then wriggled hurriedly into the garden, which he could see through a grated gate under a great arch. **Who acts:** Dark cypresses, cypresses, lizards, man · **What happens:** rise, draw in, shine, creep up, glance, wriggle · **To what, where:** trees thrust, stone walls, man, wall, garden, grated gate 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 (Dark cypresses, cypresses, lizards, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:15:65 # text = Dark cypresses rose behind the stone walls, and fig trees thrust their wonderfully crooked fingers forward, as if they would draw him in; shining lizards crept up the wall, glanced at him with their glittering eyes, and then wriggled hurriedly into the garden, which he could see through a grated gate under a great arch. 1 Dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cypresses cypress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 behind behind ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 fig fig NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 compound _ _ 12 thrust thrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 crooked crooked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 forward forward ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 28 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 glanced glance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 glittering glittering NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 44 wriggled wriggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 45 hurriedly hurriedly ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 into into ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 obj _ _ 51 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 52 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 acl:relcl _ _ 54 through through ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 grated grate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 amod _ _ 57 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 58 under under ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 arch arch NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | Dark cypresses | trees thrust cypresses's crooked fingers | | the stone walls | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind wall=Location | | 2 | **draw in** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | cypresses *= cypress* | man | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **shine** | gerund | Dark cypresses *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **creep up** | past | lizards | the wall | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **glance** | past | lizards *not said here* | | | | | at man; with lizards's glittering eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 6 | **wriggle** | past | Dark cypresses *not said here* | | | the garden | then | hurriedly *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **see** | could | man | the garden | | a grated gate under a great arch | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | | 8 | **grate** | participle | | | | | | | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/66/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/15/)