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title: His heart beating high with joy, he went to meet his master, and fou… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: His heart beating high with joy, he went to meet his master, and found him sitting on a stone resting from the fatigue of his long walk. Who acts: heart, Stolberg. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 54

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His heart beating high with joy, he went to meet his master, and found him sitting on a stone resting from the fatigue of his long walk.

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**Who acts:** heart, Stolberg · **What happens:** beat, go, meet, find, sit, rest · **To what, where:** master, Stolberg, stone, fatigue, long walk

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Stolberg), 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:pg74323:21:54
# text = His heart beating high with joy, he went to meet his master, and found him sitting on a stone resting from the fatigue of his long walk.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | gerund | Stolberg's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with joy; high *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Stolberg's heart |  |  |  |  | Stolberg *nsubj* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Stolberg's heart *not said here* | Stolberg's master |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | Stolberg's heart *not said here* | Stolberg |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | Stolberg *not said here* |  |  | a stone |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location |
| 6 | **rest** | gerund | Stolberg *not said here* |  |  | the fatigue of Stolberg's long walk |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fatigue** |  |  | Stolberg's long walk |  |  |  |  | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **walk** |  | Stolberg |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act 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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