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title: Suddenly the affrighted maidens see the glitter of arms in the faint… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly the affrighted maidens see the glitter of arms in the faint moonlight. Who acts: affrighted maidens. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 112

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Suddenly the affrighted maidens see the glitter of arms in the faint moonlight.

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**Who acts:** affrighted maidens · **What happens:** affright, see · **To what, where:** glitter

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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 (affrighted maidens), 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:pg74323:2:112
# text = Suddenly the affrighted maidens see the glitter of arms in the faint moonlight.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	affrighted	affright	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	glitter	glitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affright** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | the affrighted maidens | the glitter of arms in the faint moonlight |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glitter=Stimulus |

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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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