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title: A thousand tiny female forms appeared in answer to the summons, bear… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A thousand tiny female forms appeared in answer to the summons, bearing strawberries and raspberries; and while the King and his guest partook of the fruit, the dwarf maidens played the most delicious music. Who acts: tiny female forms, King, dwarf maidens. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Ha
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 83

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A thousand tiny female forms appeared in answer to the summons, bearing strawberries and raspberries; and while the King and his guest partook of the fruit, the dwarf maidens played the most delicious music.

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**Who acts:** tiny female forms, King, dwarf maidens · **What happens:** appear, bear, partake, play · **To what, where:** thousand, answer, strawberries, delicious music

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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: who acts (tiny female forms, King, dwarf maidens), 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:pg74323:25:83
# text = A thousand tiny female forms appeared in answer to the summons, bearing strawberries and raspberries; and while the King and his guest partook of the fruit, the dwarf maidens played the most delicious music.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	summons	summon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	partook	partake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | tiny female forms | a thousand |  | answer to the summons |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | tiny female forms *not said here* | strawberries and raspberries |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient |
| 3 | **partake** | past | the King and king's guest |  |  |  |  | of the fruit | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | past | the dwarf maidens | the delicious music |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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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