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title: The woods gave place speedily to a bare tract, and the maiden circle… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The woods gave place speedily to a bare tract, and the maiden circle grew ever smaller. Who acts: woods, maiden circle. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 2

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The woods gave place speedily to a bare tract, and the maiden circle grew ever smaller.

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**Who acts:** woods, maiden circle · **What happens:** give, grow · **To what, where:** place, bare tract

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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 (woods, maiden circle), 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:pg74323:24:2
# text = The woods gave place speedily to a bare tract, and the maiden circle grew ever smaller.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the woods | place | a bare tract |  |  | speedily *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to tract=Recipient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the maiden circle |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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