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title: It drops blood on St. John's Eve and St. John's Day, and to-morrow w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It drops blood on St. John's Eve and St. John's Day, and to-morrow will be St. John's Day, and the flower grows abundantly by my garden fence." Who acts: Hypericon, St., flower. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its dependency 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 48

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It drops blood on St. John's Eve and St. John's Day, and to-morrow will be St. John's Day, and the flower grows abundantly by my garden fence."

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**Who acts:** Hypericon, St., flower · **What happens:** drop, be, grow · **To what, where:** blood, Eve, Day

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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 (Hypericon, St., flower), 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:pg74323:7:48
# text = It drops blood on St. John's Eve and St. John's Day, and to-morrow will be St. John's Day, and the flower grows abundantly by my garden fence."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
21	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | Hypericon | blood |  | John  St.'s Eve and John  St.'s Day |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme on eve=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | future | St. | John's Day |  |  |  | to morrow; John *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the flower |  |  |  |  | by my garden fence; abundantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fence=Location |

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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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