--- title: "Sitting the other day in the enchanting valley of the graceful Ilse… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: "Sitting the other day in the enchanting valley of the graceful Ilse, leaping proudly and gaily in a thousand tiny waterfalls over the moss-grown stones, as if conscious of her royal origin, I wrote the following lines, which express faintly my feelings, and which I beg you to keep as a souvenir of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/) / 1 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 1 "Sitting the other day in the enchanting valley of the graceful Ilse, leaping proudly and gaily in a thousand tiny waterfalls over the moss-grown stones, as if conscious of her royal origin, I wrote the following lines, which express faintly my feelings, and which I beg you to keep as a souvenir of our first meeting. **Who acts:** I, following lines · **What happens:** sit, enchant, leap, grow, write, follow · **To what, where:** enchanting valley, thousand tiny waterfalls, following lines, feelings, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, following lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:6:1 # text = "Sitting the other day in the enchanting valley of the graceful Ilse, leaping proudly and gaily in a thousand tiny waterfalls over the moss-grown stones, as if conscious of her royal origin, I wrote the following lines, which express faintly my feelings, and which I beg you to keep as a souvenir of our first meeting. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 ccomp _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 enchanting enchant VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 graceful graceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Ilse Ilse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 leaping leap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 conj _ _ 16 proudly proudly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 gaily gaily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 waterfalls waterfall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 conscious conscious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 origin origin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 amod _ _ 43 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 46 express express VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 47 faintly faintly ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 54 obj _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 55 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 57 mark _ _ 57 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 advcl _ _ 58 as as ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 souvenir souvenir NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 62 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 63 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 64 amod _ _ 64 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | the enchanting valley of the graceful Ilse | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location | | 2 | **enchant** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **leap** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | thousand tiny waterfalls | | over the grown stones; proudly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in waterfall=Trajectory | | 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | moss *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **write** *in a quote* | past | I | the following lines | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent line=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **follow** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **express** *in a quote* | present | the following lines | my feelings | | | | faintly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme | | 8 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | I | | you | | | which *obj* | tree rules | | 9 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | as a souvenir of our first meeting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Legends and Tales., part 4, 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/105/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/2/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/6/)