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title: Slowly and in indescribable purity the harmonies echoed through the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Slowly and in indescribable purity the harmonies echoed through the mountains, and just where Ernst stood the sweet tones trembled in the air, as if the whole vale were one great harp. Who acts: harmonies, Ernst, whole vale. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 43

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Slowly and in indescribable purity the harmonies echoed through the mountains, and just where Ernst stood the sweet tones trembled in the air, as if the whole vale were one great harp.

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**Who acts:** harmonies, Ernst, whole vale · **What happens:** echo, stand, tremble, be · **To what, where:** indescribable purity, sweet tones, air, one great harp

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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, Ernst, whole vale), 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:pg74323:17:43
# text = Slowly and in indescribable purity the harmonies echoed through the mountains, and just where Ernst stood the sweet tones trembled in the air, as if the whole vale were one great harp.
1	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	indescribable	indescribable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	purity	purity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	harmonies	harmony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	Ernst	Ernst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **echo** | past | the harmonies |  |  | indescribable purity |  | through the mountains; slowly *property* | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in purity=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Ernst | the sweet tones |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tremble** | participle |  | the sweet tones *not said here* |  | the air |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the whole vale | one great harp |  |  |  |  | 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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