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title: Wild lettuce, yellow and red, grows next the round shave-grass, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild lettuce, yellow and red, grows next the round shave-grass, and the water-lily and mallow rock themselves on the fragrant banks; on the rocky mountain wall shimmers the white-browed swallow-wort, the saxifrage, and the yellow wall-pepper; from the mossy ground of the forest spring the flaming pu
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 4

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Wild lettuce, yellow and red, grows next the round shave-grass, and the water-lily and mallow rock themselves on the fragrant banks; on the rocky mountain wall shimmers the white-browed swallow-wort, the saxifrage, and the yellow wall-pepper; from the mossy ground of the forest spring the flaming purple toad-stool, the agaric, and the pale goat's-beard.

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**Who acts:** Wild lettuce, flaming · **What happens:** grow, shimmer, brow, stool · **To what, where:** water lily, mossy ground, browed swallow wort, rocky mountain wall

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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 (Wild lettuce, flaming), 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:pg74323:17:4
# text = Wild lettuce, yellow and red, grows next the round shave-grass, and the water-lily and mallow rock themselves on the fragrant banks; on the rocky mountain wall shimmers the white-browed swallow-wort, the saxifrage, and the yellow wall-pepper; from the mossy ground of the forest spring the flaming purple toad-stool, the agaric, and the pale goat's-beard.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	next	next	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	shave	shave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	mallow	mallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
35	shimmers	shimmer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	browed	brow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
40	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	wort	wort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	saxifrage	saxifrage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
49	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
50	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	mossy	mossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
63	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
64	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
65	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	agaric	agaric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
72	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	77	cc	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
74	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
75	goat's	goat's	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Wild lettuce | the water lily on the fragrant banks and mallow rock  lily |  | the mossy ground of the forest spring and the purple toad stool and the pale goat's beard |  | next the round shave grass | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme next grass=Location |
| 2 | **shimmer** | present | Wild lettuce *not said here* | the browed swallow wort and the saxifrage |  | the rocky mountain wall |  | the yellow wall pepper *obl* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wort=Theme |
| 3 | **brow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stool** |  | flaming |  |  |  |  | the agaric *appos* | 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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