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title: Then he saw three maidens sitting under the green roof of a maple tr… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he saw three maidens sitting under the green roof of a maple tree, silent and mournful; their eyes were wet as if dewdrops hung in the drooping eyelashes; they uttered complaining words in soft tones like the rustling of the night wind in the leaves. Who acts: warrior, three maidens, eyes, tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 6

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Then he saw three maidens sitting under the green roof of a maple tree, silent and mournful; their eyes were wet as if dewdrops hung in the drooping eyelashes; they uttered complaining words in soft tones like the rustling of the night wind in the leaves.

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**Who acts:** warrior, three maidens, eyes, trees · **What happens:** see, sit, be, hang, droop, utter · **To what, where:** three maidens, green roof, dewdrops, drooping eyelashes, words, soft tones

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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 (warrior, three maidens, eyes, trees), 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:pg74323:24:6
# text = Then he saw three maidens sitting under the green roof of a maple tree, silent and mournful; their eyes were wet as if dewdrops hung in the drooping eyelashes; they uttered complaining words in soft tones like the rustling of the night wind in the leaves.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	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 | **see** | past | warrior | three maidens |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | three maidens *not said here* |  |  | the green roof of a maple tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under roof=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | trees's eyes |  |  |  |  | as dewdrops; wet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** | participle |  | dewdrops *not said here* |  | the drooping eyelashes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eyelash=Location |
| 5 | **droop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | trees *= tree* *not said here* | words |  | soft tones like the rustling of the night wind in the leaves |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **rustle** |  |  | the night wind in the leaves |  |  |  |  | nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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