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title: With the bliss of the purest love he clasps the sorrowing maiden in… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: With the bliss of the purest love he clasps the sorrowing maiden in his strong arms--and yet thou remainest in mourning and tears? Who acts: tread, thou. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 103

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With the bliss of the purest love he clasps the sorrowing maiden in his strong arms--and yet thou remainest in mourning and tears?

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**Who acts:** tread, thou · **What happens:** clasp, sorrow, remain · **To what, where:** strong arms, mourning

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tread, thou), 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:pg74323:16:105
# text = With the bliss of the purest love he clasps the sorrowing maiden in his strong arms--and yet thou remainest in mourning and tears?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	clasps	clasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	remainest	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clasp** | present | tread | tread's strong arms |  |  |  | with the bliss of the purest love | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent arm=Patient with bliss=Instrument |
| 2 | **sorrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | maiden *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remain** | present | thou |  |  | mourning and tears | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mourning=Location |

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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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