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title: Guard thyself well, O wanderer; gaze not so deep in the mournful eye… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Guard thyself well, O wanderer; gaze not so deep in the mournful eyes; it is the Spectre-Maiden. Who acts: countenance. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 83

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Guard thyself well, O wanderer; gaze not so deep in the mournful eyes; it is the Spectre-Maiden.

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**Who acts:** countenance · **What happens:** not gaze, be · **To what, where:** Spectre

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countenance), 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:pg74323:4:83
# text = Guard thyself well, O wanderer; gaze not so deep in the mournful eyes; it is the Spectre-Maiden.
1	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	_
6	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **gaze** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | countenance | the Spectre |  |  |  | Maiden *appos* | tree rules |

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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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