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title: The figure waved the hand, glanced kindly at the sleeping children,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The figure waved the hand, glanced kindly at the sleeping children, set down a peculiar shaped basket on a table, drew a cross over the mother, and vanished. Who acts: figure, sleeping children. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, wi
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 86

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The figure waved the hand, glanced kindly at the sleeping children, set down a peculiar shaped basket on a table, drew a cross over the mother, and vanished.

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**Who acts:** figure, sleeping children · **What happens:** wave, glance, set down, shape, draw, vanish · **To what, where:** hand, shaped basket, table, cross

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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 (figure, sleeping children), 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:pg74323:16:87
# text = The figure waved the hand, glanced kindly at the sleeping children, set down a peculiar shaped basket on a table, drew a cross over the mother, and vanished.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past | the figure | the hand |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **glance** | past | the figure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the sleeping children; kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme |
| 3 | **set down** | participle | the sleeping children *not said here* | a shaped basket |  | a table |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme on table=Destination |
| 4 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | peculiar *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **draw** | past | the figure *not said here* | a cross |  |  |  | over the mother | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme |
| 6 | **vanish** | past | the figure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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