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title: Why dost thou gaze with such sad longing into the vale below? — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Why dost thou gaze with such sad longing into the vale below? Who acts: 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 of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 95

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Why dost thou gaze with such sad longing into the vale below?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** gaze

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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 (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:pg74323:16:97
# text = Why dost thou gaze with such sad longing into the vale below?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	below	below	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | present · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | with such sad longing; into the vale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vale=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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