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title: The next day she went back, determined to obey the voice, and pick t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day she went back, determined to obey the voice, and pick the flower, but it and the serpent had vanished. Who acts: glance. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, 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 5, sentence 38

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The next day she went back, determined to obey the voice, and pick the flower, but it and the serpent had vanished.

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**Who acts:** glance · **What happens:** go back, obey, pick, vanish · **To what, where:** voice, flower

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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 (glance), 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:pg74323:6:38
# text = The next day she went back, determined to obey the voice, and pick the flower, but it and the serpent had vanished.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | glance |  |  |  | day | determined *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **obey** | to-infinitive | glance *not said here* | the voice |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | infinitive | glance *not said here* | the flower |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 4 | **vanish** | past · perfect · passive |  | voice |  |  |  |  | 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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