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title: The moon had risen, and bathed the night in her mystic light; the st… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon had risen, and bathed the night in her mystic light; the stars looked mournfully down on the betrayed maiden. Who acts: stars, Wolfenbüttel. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 91

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The moon had risen, and bathed the night in her mystic light; the stars looked mournfully down on the betrayed maiden.

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**Who acts:** stars, Wolfenbüttel · **What happens:** rise, bath, look, betray, light · **To what, where:** moon, mystic light

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, Wolfenbüttel), 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:pg74323:19:91
# text = The moon had risen, and bathed the night in her mystic light; the stars looked mournfully down on the betrayed maiden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	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	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bathed	bath	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past · perfect · passive |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bath** | past |  |  |  | Wolfenbüttel's mystic light | night |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | the stars |  |  |  |  | on the betrayed maiden; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on maiden=Theme |
| 4 | **betray** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **light** |  | Wolfenbüttel |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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