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title: May spoke of the towered village church nestling so confidingly in t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: May spoke of the towered village church nestling so confidingly in the rich foliage, and regretted she had not yet seen the interior, but hoped to the following Sunday. Who acts: towered village church, place. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tale
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 13

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May spoke of the towered village church nestling so confidingly in the rich foliage, and regretted she had not yet seen the interior, but hoped to the following Sunday.

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**Who acts:** towered village church, place · **What happens:** speak, tower, nestle, regret, not see, hope · **To what, where:** rich foliage, interior · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (towered village church, place), 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:pg74323:5:13
# text = May spoke of the towered village church nestling so confidingly in the rich foliage, and regretted she had not yet seen the interior, but hoped to the following Sunday.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	towered	tower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	nestling	nestle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	confidingly	confidingly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	regretted	regret	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | may |  |  |  |  |  | of the towered village church | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tower** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **nestle** | gerund | the towered village church *not said here* |  |  | the rich foliage |  | confidingly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in foliage=Location |
| 4 | **regret** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | place | the interior |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer interior=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hope** | past |  |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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