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title: He followed Henry to the Staufenburg, watched four whole days in the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He followed Henry to the Staufenburg, watched four whole days in the thick woods, and the evening of the fourth day, to his utter amazement, recognised Eva von Trotta in the stone balcony by Henry's side. Who acts: Henry. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Hi
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 117

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He followed Henry to the Staufenburg, watched four whole days in the thick woods, and the evening of the fourth day, to his utter amazement, recognised Eva von Trotta in the stone balcony by Henry's side.

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**Who acts:** Henry · **What happens:** follow, watch, recognise, amaze · **To what, where:** Henry, Staufenburg, thick woods, Eva, stone balcony

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry), 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:pg74323:20:117
# text = He followed Henry to the Staufenburg, watched four whole days in the thick woods, and the evening of the fourth day, to his utter amazement, recognised Eva von Trotta in the stone balcony by Henry's side.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
31	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	31	flat	_	_
33	Trotta	Trotta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Henry | Henry |  | the Staufenburg |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent henry=Theme to staufenburg=Trajectory |
| 2 | **watch** | past |  |  |  | the thick woods | day; evening |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
| 3 | **recognise** | past |  | Eva |  | the stone balcony |  | to Henry's utter amazement; by Henry's side | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eva=Stimulus |
| 4 | **amaze** |  | Henry |  |  |  |  |  | nom amazement «feeling 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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