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title: And the night grew darker, and the waves of the Zorge murmured with… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And the night grew darker, and the waves of the Zorge murmured with a hollow moan, and the flowers grew wet with dew. Who acts: night, waves, flowers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 68

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And the night grew darker, and the waves of the Zorge murmured with a hollow moan, and the flowers grew wet with dew.

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**Who acts:** night, waves, flowers · **What happens:** grow, murmur, wave · **To what, where:** Zorge

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, waves, flowers), 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:pg74323:22:68
# text = And the night grew darker, and the waves of the Zorge murmured with a hollow moan, and the flowers grew wet with dew.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Zorge	Zorge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the night |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the waves of the Zorge |  |  |  |  | with a hollow moan | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with moan=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** |  |  | the Zorge |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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