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title: Only the lonely wanderer hears in the stillness of the night a gloom… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Only the lonely wanderer hears in the stillness of the night a gloomy noise like distant merriment and shouting, mingled with smothered groans and a horrible dirge. Who acts: lonely wanderer. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with i
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 83

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Only the lonely wanderer hears in the stillness of the night a gloomy noise like distant merriment and shouting, mingled with smothered groans and a horrible dirge.

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**Who acts:** lonely wanderer · **What happens:** hear, shout, mingle, smother · **To what, where:** stillness

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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 (lonely wanderer), 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:pg74323:22:83
# text = Only the lonely wanderer hears in the stillness of the night a gloomy noise like distant merriment and shouting, mingled with smothered groans and a horrible dirge.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	smothered	smother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	groans	groan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dirge	dirge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | the lonely wanderer |  |  | the stillness of the night and a gloomy noise like distant merriment |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the lonely wanderer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mingle** | participle | the lonely wanderer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with smothered groans and a horrible dirge | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with groan=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **smother** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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