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title: The nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream will look out for us,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream will look out for us, longing for our coming, and ask, 'Where are our friends of the mountain? Who acts: nymphs, our. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 10

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The nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream will look out for us, longing for our coming, and ask, 'Where are our friends of the mountain?

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**Who acts:** nymphs, our · **What happens:** look out, long, come, ask, be · **To what, where:** friends

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nymphs, our), 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:pg74323:24:10
# text = The nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream will look out for us, longing for our coming, and ask, 'Where are our friends of the mountain?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | future | the nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream |  |  |  |  | for us | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for we=Theme |
| 2 | **long** | gerund | the nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | our |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the nymphs of the lake and the mountain stream *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | our friends |  |  |  | of the mountain; our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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