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title: Finding comfort in the tones, the harmonies grew louder and louder,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Finding comfort in the tones, the harmonies grew louder and louder, and she listened with joy to the tones, now fancying them the voice of the nightingale or the thrush. Who acts: harmonies, Jutta. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 38

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Finding comfort in the tones, the harmonies grew louder and louder, and she listened with joy to the tones, now fancying them the voice of the nightingale or the thrush.

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**Who acts:** harmonies, Jutta · **What happens:** find, grow, listen, fancy · **To what, where:** comfort, tones, harmonies

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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 (harmonies, 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:pg74323:17:38
# text = Finding comfort in the tones, the harmonies grew louder and louder, and she listened with joy to the tones, now fancying them the voice of the nightingale or the thrush.
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	harmonies	harmony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	fancying	fancy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	thrush	thrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | the harmonies *not said here* | comfort |  | the tones |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the harmonies |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | past | Jutta |  |  |  |  | with joy; to the tones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tone=Theme |
| 4 | **fancy** | gerund | the harmonies *not said here* | harmonies *= harmony* |  |  | now | the voice of the nightingale or the thrush *obj* | tree rules |

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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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