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title: One day a child plucked a flower on the Petersberg near Goslar while… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a child plucked a flower on the Petersberg near Goslar while playing. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, 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 8, sentence 23

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One day a child plucked a flower on the Petersberg near Goslar while playing.

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**What happens:** pluck, play · **To what, where:** One day, Petersberg

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:25:23
# text = One day a child plucked a flower on the Petersberg near Goslar while playing.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Petersberg	Petersberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Goslar	Goslar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | participle · passive |  | One day |  | the Petersberg near Goslar |  | a child *nsubj*; a flower *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary flower=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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