--- title: The stag sprang impetuously forward to meet him, and hardly had he e… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: The stag sprang impetuously forward to meet him, and hardly had he eaten the plants, when the stag took the form of a stately youth, in knightly gold-embroidered doublet, streaming plume in his barret, and baldrick worked in gold and antlers. Who acts: stag, baldrick. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, baldrick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:7:50 # text = The stag sprang impetuously forward to meet him, and hardly had he eaten the plants, when the stag took the form of a stately youth, in knightly gold-embroidered doublet, streaming plume in his barret, and baldrick worked in gold and antlers. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 impetuously impetuously ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 forward forward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 stately stately ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 knightly knightly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 31 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 embroidered embroider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 doublet doublet NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 streaming stream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 37 plume plume NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 barret barret NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 baldrick baldrick NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spring** | past | the stag | | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the stag *not said here* | stag | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | | | | | | hardly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | participle | stag | the plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 5 | **take** | past | the stag | the form of a stately youth | | knightly embroidered doublet | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent form=Value in doublet=Location | | 6 | **embroider** | participle | | | | | | gold *compound* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stream** | gerund | the stag *not said here* | plume | | stag's barret | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plume=Theme | | 8 | **work** | past | baldrick | | | | | in gold and antlers | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gold=Theme | | 9 | **form** | | | a stately youth | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/51/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)