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title: "The sun has set, the evening brightness fades, The gloom increases… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "The sun has set, the evening brightness fades, The gloom increases in the forest glades; And a deep sadness all my soul pervades: I am alone. Who acts: evening brightness, gloom, deep sadness. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, with
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 3

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"The sun has set, the evening brightness fades, The gloom increases in the forest glades; And a deep sadness all my soul pervades: I am alone.

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**Who acts:** evening brightness, gloom, deep sadness · **What happens:** set, fade, increase, pervade · **To what, where:** sun, forest glades

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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 (evening brightness, gloom, deep sadness), 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:pg74323:6:3
# text = "The sun has set, the evening brightness fades, The gloom increases in the forest glades; And a deep sadness all my soul pervades: I am alone.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	increases	increase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	glades	glade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	pervades	pervade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **fade** *in a quote* | present | the evening brightness |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **increase** *in a quote* | present | the gloom |  |  | the forest glades |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pervade** *in a quote* | present | a deep sadness  my soul |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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