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title: "The gentle air plays with the rustling leaves, Sweet with the fragr… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "The gentle air plays with the rustling leaves, Sweet with the fragrant odours it receives; My bosom with no whispered incense heaves: I am alone. Who acts: gentle air, air, My. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, with its dependency 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 5

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"The gentle air plays with the rustling leaves, Sweet with the fragrant odours it receives; My bosom with no whispered incense heaves: I am alone.

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**Who acts:** gentle air, air, My · **What happens:** play, receive, whisper, bosom · **To what, where:** bosom, fragrant odours

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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 (gentle air, air, My), 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:pg74323:6:5
# text = "The gentle air plays with the rustling leaves, Sweet with the fragrant odours it receives; My bosom with no whispered incense heaves: I am alone.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	odours	odour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
23	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	heaves	heave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** *in a quote* | present | the gentle air | My bosom with no whispered incense heaves |  |  |  | with the rustling leaves | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** *in a quote* | present | air | the fragrant odours *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odour=Theme |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bosom** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  | with no whispered incense heaves | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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