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title: The dogs barked as if for joy at the discovery, stopped their work,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The dogs barked as if for joy at the discovery, stopped their work, and sprang barking from one shepherd to the other. Who acts: dogs. 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 73

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The dogs barked as if for joy at the discovery, stopped their work, and sprang barking from one shepherd to the other.

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**Who acts:** dogs · **What happens:** bark, stop, spring, work · **To what, where:** dogs, work, other

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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 (dogs), 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:pg74323:24:73
# text = The dogs barked as if for joy at the discovery, stopped their work, and sprang barking from one shepherd to the other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	barked	bark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **bark** | participle |  | the dogs *not said here* |  |  |  | as joy at the discovery | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | past | the dogs | dogs's work |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spring** | past | the dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bark** | gerund | the dogs *not said here* |  | the other |  |  | from one shepherd | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |
| 5 | **work** |  | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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