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title: It is almost round, and several feet deeper than the ground around i… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It is almost round, and several feet deeper than the ground around it, and quite overgrown with swamp-moss. Who acts: spot, several feet. 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 67

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It is almost round, and several feet deeper than the ground around it, and quite overgrown with swamp-moss.

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**Who acts:** spot, several feet · **What happens:** be, overgrow · **To what, where:** spot

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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 (spot, several feet), 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:pg74323:16:68
# text = It is almost round, and several feet deeper than the ground around it, and quite overgrown with swamp-moss.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | spot |  |  |  |  | almost, round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | several feet |  |  | spot |  | than the ground | tree rules |
| 3 | **overgrow** | participle | spot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with swamp moss | tree rules |

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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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