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title: The bud had blossomed into a wonderful flower, the pride of the deso… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The bud had blossomed into a wonderful flower, the pride of the desolate father's heart. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 94

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The bud had blossomed into a wonderful flower, the pride of the desolate father's heart.

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**What happens:** blossom, desolate, pride · **To what, where:** bud, wonderful flower, heart

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:18:94
# text = The bud had blossomed into a wonderful flower, the pride of the desolate father's heart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	blossomed	blossom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	compound	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blossom** | past · perfect · passive |  | the bud |  | a wonderful flower |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pride** |  |  | the desolate father's heart |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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