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title: Where the Innerste, which springs from the Barenbruche, approaches h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Where the Innerste, which springs from the Barenbruche, approaches her issue from the Harz, she quickens her course, flowing among steep, well-wooded mountains in youthful mirth, or silently over sands, playing with the water-violets, which from the damp moss bend their blue heads in the crystal rip
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 1

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Where the Innerste, which springs from the Barenbruche, approaches her issue from the Harz, she quickens her course, flowing among steep, well-wooded mountains in youthful mirth, or silently over sands, playing with the water-violets, which from the damp moss bend their blue heads in the crystal ripples.

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**Who acts:** Innerste · **What happens:** approach, quicken, flow, wood, play, bend · **To what, where:** issue, Harz, course, steep, water violets, damp moss

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Innerste), 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:pg74323:17:1
# text = Where the Innerste, which springs from the Barenbruche, approaches her issue from the Harz, she quickens her course, flowing among steep, well-wooded mountains in youthful mirth, or silently over sands, playing with the water-violets, which from the damp moss bend their blue heads in the crystal ripples.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Innerste	Innerste	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Barenbruche	Barenbruche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	approaches	approach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	quickens	quicken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
52	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	ripples	ripple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | present | the Innerste | Innerste's issue |  | the Harz |  | wooded mountains in youthful mirth or sands *conj* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Theme |
| 2 | **quicken** | present | Innerste | Innerste's course |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent course=Patient |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | Innerste *not said here* |  |  | steep |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among steep=Location |
| 4 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | gerund | the Innerste *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the water violets | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with violet=Theme |
| 6 | **bend** | present |  | the water violets |  | the damp moss |  | in the crystal ripples; violets's blue heads *obj* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Patient head=Result |
| 7 | **issue** |  | Innerste |  |  | the Harz |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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