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title: "Wilt thou remain here, father, and watch that no wolf come out of t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wilt thou remain here, father, and watch that no wolf come out of the wood and scatter the flock?" said the son, and hurried on in the direction the dogs had taken. Who acts: thou, wolf, son, direction. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., pa
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 59

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"Wilt thou remain here, father, and watch that no wolf come out of the wood and scatter the flock?" said the son, and hurried on in the direction the dogs had taken.

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**Who acts:** thou, wolf, son, direction · **What happens:** remain, watch, come out, scatter, say, hurry on · **To what, where:** father, flock, direction, dogs · **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 (thou, wolf, son, direction), 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:pg74323:24:59
# text = "Wilt thou remain here, father, and watch that no wolf come out of the wood and scatter the flock?" said the son, and hurried on in the direction the dogs had taken.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** *in a quote* | future | thou | father |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | no wolf |  |  |  |  | of the wood; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **scatter** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the flock |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flock=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hurry on** | participle | the son *not said here* |  |  | the direction |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 7 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | the direction *not said here* | the dogs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |

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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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