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title: But when he had dried his eyes, and opened them again, he drew a lon… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he had dried his eyes, and opened them again, he drew a long breath, for he lay on the banks of the Bode beside his nets, which had filled with fish; and of Schloss and Ritter was nothing to be seen--only the ruins as ever. Who acts: Graumännchen, Schloss. A sentence of «Legends and tales o
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 125

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But when he had dried his eyes, and opened them again, he drew a long breath, for he lay on the banks of the Bode beside his nets, which had filled with fish; and of Schloss and Ritter was nothing to be seen--only the ruins as ever.

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**Who acts:** Graumännchen, Schloss · **What happens:** dry, open, draw, lie, fill, be · **To what, where:** eyes, long breath, banks, nets, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graumännchen, Schloss), 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:pg74323:7:125
# text = But when he had dried his eyes, and opened them again, he drew a long breath, for he lay on the banks of the Bode beside his nets, which had filled with fish; and of Schloss and Ritter was nothing to be seen--only the ruins as ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Bode	Bode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	Ritter	ritter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	only	only	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
53	as	as	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | past · perfect | Graumännchen | Graumännchen's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result |
| 2 | **open** | past |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Graumännchen | a long breath |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past | Graumännchen |  |  | the banks of the Bode |  | beside Graumännchen's nets | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 5 | **fill** | past · perfect · passive |  | Graumännchen's nets |  |  |  | with fish | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fish=Instrument |
| 6 | **is a** | past | Schloss and Ritter | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  | nothing |  |  | ever | the ruins *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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