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title: St. John's Eve, Frau Anna and her husband, full of curiosity, togeth… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: St. John's Eve, Frau Anna and her husband, full of curiosity, together with the servants, hid themselves near the bridge to see the dwarfs march over. Who acts: John, dwarfs. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with its dependency tre
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 47

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St. John's Eve, Frau Anna and her husband, full of curiosity, together with the servants, hid themselves near the bridge to see the dwarfs march over.

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**Who acts:** John, dwarfs · **What happens:** hide, see, march over · **To what, where:** servants, bridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, dwarfs), 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:pg74323:23:47
# text = St. John's Eve, Frau Anna and her husband, full of curiosity, together with the servants, hid themselves near the bridge to see the dwarfs march over.
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Frau	Frau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	march	march	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | John  St. and Frau Anna and John's husband and the servants | servants *= servant* |  | the bridge |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient near bridge=Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | John  St. and Frau Anna and John's husband and the servants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **march over** | present | the dwarfs |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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