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title: Suddenly he stood still before a maiden asleep on a mossy bank under… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly he stood still before a maiden asleep on a mossy bank under the rustling trees. Who acts: influence. 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 of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 21

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Suddenly he stood still before a maiden asleep on a mossy bank under the rustling trees.

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**Who acts:** influence · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** rustling trees

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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 (influence), 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:pg74323:16:22
# text = Suddenly he stood still before a maiden asleep on a mossy bank under the rustling trees.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mossy	mossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | **stand** | past | influence |  |  | the rustling trees | still | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=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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