--- title: Beneath, on the river-banks, sounds the soft flute-like voice of the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Beneath, on the river-banks, sounds the soft flute-like voice of the white-breasted plover, the whistling of the thistle-finch; and the blackbird and linnet, the cross-bill and thrush make the green halls merry with their ringing voices. Who acts: blackbird, green halls, thistle finch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blackbird, green halls, thistle finch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:17:7 # text = Beneath, on the river-banks, sounds the soft flute-like voice of the white-breasted plover, the whistling of the thistle-finch; and the blackbird and linnet, the cross-bill and thrush make the green halls merry with their ringing voices. 1 Beneath beneath INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 11 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 12 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 breasted breast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 plover plover NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 whistling whistling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 thistle thistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 finch finch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 blackbird blackbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 linnet linnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cross-bill cross-bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 thrush thrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 halls hall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 merry merry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 xcomp _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 48 ringing ringing NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | | the soft like voice of the breasted plover | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **breast** | participle | | | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | the blackbird and linnet and the cross-bill and thrush | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **merry** | present | the green halls | | | | | with halls's ringing voices | tree rules | | 5 | **whistle** | | the thistle finch | | | | | | nom whistling «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/17/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/17/8/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/17/)