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title: "I saw thee at such a late hour sitting in troubled thought," replie… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "I saw thee at such a late hour sitting in troubled thought," replied the patron spirit, in a melodious voice, "and came to ask the cause of thy sorrow. Who acts: patron spirit, late hour, thy. 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 72

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"I saw thee at such a late hour sitting in troubled thought," replied the patron spirit, in a melodious voice, "and came to ask the cause of thy sorrow.

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**Who acts:** patron spirit, late hour, thy · **What happens:** see, sit, reply, come, ask, cause · **To what, where:** thee, troubled thought, melodious voice, cause, sorrow · **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 (patron spirit, late hour, thy), 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:pg74323:23:72
# text = "I saw thee at such a late hour sitting in troubled thought," replied the patron spirit, in a melodious voice, "and came to ask the cause of thy sorrow.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the patron spirit *= spirit* | thee |  |  | hour |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | such late hour *not said here* |  |  | troubled thought |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thought=Location |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the patron spirit |  |  | a melodious voice |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the patron spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the patron spirit *not said here* | the cause of thy sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient |
| 6 | **cause** *in a quote* |  |  | thy sorrow |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **sorrow** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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