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title: She is gazing after him from the tower, waiting for his return by th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She is gazing after him from the tower, waiting for his return by the broken drawbridge, and wanders ever in search of him. Who acts: guard, Crusader. 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 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 90

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She is gazing after him from the tower, waiting for his return by the broken drawbridge, and wanders ever in search of him.

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**Who acts:** guard, Crusader · **What happens:** gaze, wait, break, wander, return, search · **To what, where:** search, Crusader

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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 (guard, Crusader), 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:pg74323:4:90
# text = She is gazing after him from the tower, waiting for his return by the broken drawbridge, and wanders ever in search of him.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | present · progressive | guard |  |  |  | after Crusader | from the tower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tower=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | guard *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Crusader's return; by the broken drawbridge | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by drawbridge=Location |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wander** | present |  |  |  | search of Crusader | ever |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory |
| 5 | **return** |  | Crusader |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | Crusader |  |  |  |  | nom search «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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