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title: Here grow mighty firs, whose roots spring from the metal-rich graywa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Here grow mighty firs, whose roots spring from the metal-rich graywacke; there, slender beeches in the clay-slate; yonder, maples with their lovely leaves. Who acts: you, roots. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16, with its dependency
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 3

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Here grow mighty firs, whose roots spring from the metal-rich graywacke; there, slender beeches in the clay-slate; yonder, maples with their lovely leaves.

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**Who acts:** you, roots · **What happens:** grow, spring · **To what, where:** mighty firs, rich graywacke

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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 (you, roots), 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:pg74323:17:3
# text = Here grow mighty firs, whose roots spring from the metal-rich graywacke; there, slender beeches in the clay-slate; yonder, maples with their lovely leaves.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	firs	fir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	graywacke	graywacke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	maples	maple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* | mighty firs |  | here; there |  | slender beeches in the clay slate *obl*; maples with roots's lovely leaves *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fir=Theme |
| 2 | **spring** | present | roots |  |  | the rich graywacke |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from graywacke=Trajectory |

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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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