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title: Directly after came a fellow in a trough along the same road, saying… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly after came a fellow in a trough along the same road, saying hurriedly: "Shall I not also come?" and made the most desperate efforts to reach the dove-drawn carriage. Who acts: fellow. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 106

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Directly after came a fellow in a trough along the same road, saying hurriedly: "Shall I not also come?" and made the most desperate efforts to reach the dove-drawn carriage.

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**Who acts:** fellow · **What happens:** come, say, not come, make, reach, draw · **To what, where:** desperate efforts, drawn carriage · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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:pg74323:24:106
# text = Directly after came a fellow in a trough along the same road, saying hurriedly: "Shall I not also come?" and made the most desperate efforts to reach the dove-drawn carriage.
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | **come** | past | a fellow in a trough along the same road |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | a fellow in a trough along the same road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | shall | a fellow in a trough along the same road *= fellow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | a fellow in a trough along the same road *not said here* | the desperate efforts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product |
| 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive | a fellow in a trough along the same road *not said here* | the drawn carriage |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme |
| 6 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | dove *compound* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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