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title: The forester followed like one in a dream, resisting, yet drawn on b… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The forester followed like one in a dream, resisting, yet drawn on by an irresistible, enchanting power, until they reached a colossal castle, built in a style perfectly unknown to him. Who acts: forester. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 76

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The forester followed like one in a dream, resisting, yet drawn on by an irresistible, enchanting power, until they reached a colossal castle, built in a style perfectly unknown to him.

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**Who acts:** forester · **What happens:** follow, resist, draw on, enchant, reach, build · **To what, where:** dream, colossal castle

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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 (forester), 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:pg74323:15:76
# text = The forester followed like one in a dream, resisting, yet drawn on by an irresistible, enchanting power, until they reached a colossal castle, built in a style perfectly unknown to him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	forester	forester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	resisting	resist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the forester |  |  | a dream |  | like one | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dream=Location |
| 2 | **resist** | gerund | the forester *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw on** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a irresistible enchanting power | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enchant** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **reach** | past | Forester | a colossal castle |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 6 | **build** | participle |  | a colossal castle *not said here* |  |  |  | in a style | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in style=Attribute |

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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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