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title: If thou dost follow when she beckons, she will draw thee into an ope… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou dost follow when she beckons, she will draw thee into an open grave with ice-cold arms. Who acts: thou, guard. 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 92

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If thou dost follow when she beckons, she will draw thee into an open grave with ice-cold arms.

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**Who acts:** thou, guard · **What happens:** do, follow, beckon, draw · **To what, where:** thee, open grave

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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 (thou, guard), 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:pg74323:4:92
# text = If thou dost follow when she beckons, she will draw thee into an open grave with ice-cold arms.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	beckons	beckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **beckon** | present | guard |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | future | guard | thee |  |  |  | into a open grave with ice cold arms *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thou=Patient into grave=Result |

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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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