--- title: Terrified, the nymph sprang up, and as she saw her secret discovered… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Terrified, the nymph sprang up, and as she saw her secret discovered, and her father so enraged, she rushed toward him and entreated him to be calm. Who acts: Terrified nymph, glance, secret, father. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Terrified nymph, glance, secret, father), 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:pg74323:16:32 # text = Terrified, the nymph sprang up, and as she saw her secret discovered, and her father so enraged, she rushed toward him and entreated him to be calm. 1 Terrified terrified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 nymph nymph NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 enraged enrage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 24 toward toward ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 entreated entreat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 31 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spring up** | past | the Terrified nymph | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | glance | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **discover** | past | glance's secret | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **enrage** | past | glance's father | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **rush** | past | glance | | | | | toward Father | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward he=Trajectory | | 6 | **entreat** | past | glance *not said here* | | Father | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | glance *not said here* | | | | | calm *property* | tree rules | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/32/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/16/)