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title: At last one of the boys began climbing up the tower walls to pluck i… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one of the boys began climbing up the tower walls to pluck it, when he heard a soft voice murmur so clearly that all heard it, "Do not pluck me." Who acts: boys, John. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, with its dependency tr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 29

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At last one of the boys began climbing up the tower walls to pluck it, when he heard a soft voice murmur so clearly that all heard it, "Do not pluck me."

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**Who acts:** boys, John · **What happens:** begin, climb up, pluck, hear, not pluck · **To what, where:** tower walls, cry, soft voice murmur, murmur, flower · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, John), 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:pg74323:6:29
# text = At last one of the boys began climbing up the tower walls to pluck it, when he heard a soft voice murmur so clearly that all heard it, "Do not pluck me."
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  | at last one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **climb up** | gerund | the boys *not said here* | the tower walls |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wall=Theme |
| 3 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | the boys *not said here* | cry |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | past | John | a soft voice murmur |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmur=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hear** | past | John *not said here* | murmur |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **pluck** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | John *not said here* | the flower *= flower* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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