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title: At midnight, when the full moon shone, each brother, with his affian… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At midnight, when the full moon shone, each brother, with his affianced bride behind him on his fleet steed, fled toward the rocky shores of England. Who acts: full moon. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 111

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At midnight, when the full moon shone, each brother, with his affianced bride behind him on his fleet steed, fled toward the rocky shores of England.

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**Who acts:** full moon · **What happens:** shine, affiance, flee · **To what, where:** brother, rocky shores

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (full moon), 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:pg74323:2:111
# text = At midnight, when the full moon shone, each brother, with his affianced bride behind him on his fleet steed, fled toward the rocky shores of England.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	affianced	affiance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the full moon | each brother |  |  | midnight | with moon's affianced bride behind combat on combat's fleet steed | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with bride=Theme |
| 2 | **affiance** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the full moon *not said here* |  |  | the rocky shores of England |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward shore=Initial\_Location |

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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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