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title: The spirit vanished, and the Countess followed his advice; but troub… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The spirit vanished, and the Countess followed his advice; but troubled dreams sported around the head of the sleeping lady, and fantastic scenes passed before her fancy. Who acts: spirit, Countess. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 85

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The spirit vanished, and the Countess followed his advice; but troubled dreams sported around the head of the sleeping lady, and fantastic scenes passed before her fancy.

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**Who acts:** spirit, Countess · **What happens:** vanish, follow, sport, pass, fancy · **To what, where:** troubled dreams, advice, head, fantastic scenes, fancy

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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 (spirit, Countess), 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:pg74323:23:85
# text = The spirit vanished, and the Countess followed his advice; but troubled dreams sported around the head of the sleeping lady, and fantastic scenes passed before her fancy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	sported	sport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
27	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | the spirit | troubled dreams |  |  |  | fantastic scenes *obl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the Countess | spirit's advice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 3 | **sport** | participle |  | troubled dreams *not said here* |  | the head of the sleeping lady |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  | fantastic scenes *not said here* |  | Countess's fancy |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fancy=Location |
| 5 | **fancy** |  | Countess |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: 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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