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title: Silently the figure approached the thinking, dreaming Countess, on w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Silently the figure approached the thinking, dreaming Countess, on whose form the soft moonlight fell, and then twitched gently her garment with his tiny hand. Who acts: figure, soft moonlight. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 68

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Silently the figure approached the thinking, dreaming Countess, on whose form the soft moonlight fell, and then twitched gently her garment with his tiny hand.

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**Who acts:** figure, soft moonlight · **What happens:** approach, dream, fall, twitch · **To what, where:** thinking, Countess, form, garment

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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 (figure, soft moonlight), 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:pg74323:23:68
# text = Silently the figure approached the thinking, dreaming Countess, on whose form the soft moonlight fell, and then twitched gently her garment with his tiny hand.
1	Silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	Countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	twitched	twitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | the figure | the thinking |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thinking=Theme |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund | the figure *not said here* | Countess |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countess=Topic |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the soft moonlight |  |  | form |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on form=Location |
| 4 | **twitch** | past | the soft moonlight *not said here* | moonlight's garment |  |  | then | with figure's tiny hand; gently *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=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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