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title: Lost in her sad thoughts, her fingers swept lightly the strings of t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Lost in her sad thoughts, her fingers swept lightly the strings of the lute, calling forth soft melodious notes. Who acts: fingers, Jutta. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 37

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Lost in her sad thoughts, her fingers swept lightly the strings of the lute, calling forth soft melodious notes.

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**Who acts:** fingers, Jutta · **What happens:** lose, sweep, call, think · **To what, where:** sad thoughts, strings, soft melodious notes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fingers, Jutta), 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:pg74323:17:37
# text = Lost in her sad thoughts, her fingers swept lightly the strings of the lute, calling forth soft melodious notes.
1	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  | Jutta's sad thoughts |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sweep** | past | Jutta's fingers | the strings of the lute |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | Jutta's fingers *not said here* | soft melodious notes |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent note=Recipient |
| 4 | **think** |  | Jutta |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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