--- title: With swelling breast, breathless, Schlosser till now had looked on a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: With swelling breast, breathless, Schlosser till now had looked on all that had passed; but at this fearful sight the last spark of firmness failed him, he closed his eyes and sank lifeless on the ground. Who acts: that, last spark, spark, firmness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, last spark, spark, firmness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:21:39 # text = With swelling breast, breathless, Schlosser till now had looked on all that had passed; but at this fearful sight the last spark of firmness failed him, he closed his eyes and sank lifeless on the ground. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 swelling swelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 breathless breathless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Schlosser Schlosser PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 till till SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 on on SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 fearful fearful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 firmness firmness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 37 lifeless lifeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past · perfect | | | | | now | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **pass** | past · perfect | that | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fail** | past | the last spark of firmness | Schlosser | | this fearful sight | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 4 | **close** | past | spark | spark's eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 5 | **sink** | past | the last spark of firmness *not said here* | | | the ground | | lifeless *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **spark** | | firmness | | | | | | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/40/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/)