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title: It was as if a clear harmonious voice called back every note that fl… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It was as if a clear harmonious voice called back every note that flew from the strings. Who acts: lute, clear harmonious voice, note. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 42

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It was as if a clear harmonious voice called back every note that flew from the strings.

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**Who acts:** lute, clear harmonious voice, note · **What happens:** be, call back, fly · **To what, where:** clear harmonious voice, note, strings

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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 (lute, clear harmonious voice, note), 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:pg74323:17:42
# text = It was as if a clear harmonious voice called back every note that flew from the strings.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lute | a clear harmonious voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call back** *speech: assert* | participle | a clear harmonious voice *not said here* | every note |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | past | every note |  |  | the strings |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from string=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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