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title: Smiling, they gave each other the hand, feeling the hour of reunion… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Smiling, they gave each other the hand, feeling the hour of reunion was come, and in the morning they were found dead, hand in hand. Who acts: trees, hour. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 131

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Smiling, they gave each other the hand, feeling the hour of reunion was come, and in the morning they were found dead, hand in hand.

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**Who acts:** trees, hour · **What happens:** smile, give, feel, be, find · **To what, where:** other hand, trees, hand

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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 (trees, hour), 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:pg74323:2:131
# text = Smiling, they gave each other the hand, feeling the hour of reunion was come, and in the morning they were found dead, hand in hand.
1	Smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	reunion	reunion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	come	come	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | gerund | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | trees *= tree* | each other hand |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | the hour of reunion |  |  |  |  | come *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive |  | trees *= tree* |  | hand | morning | dead hand *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme hand=Attribute |

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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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