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title: And sometimes still, on St. John's Day, the White Stag is seen on th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And sometimes still, on St. John's Day, the White Stag is seen on the Hagedorn, gazing with fixed eyes into the peaceful vale. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, 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 6, sentence 71

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And sometimes still, on St. John's Day, the White Stag is seen on the Hagedorn, gazing with fixed eyes into the peaceful vale.

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**What happens:** see, gaze, fix · **To what, where:** White Stag, Hagedorn

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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: 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:pg74323:7:71
# text = And sometimes still, on St. John's Day, the White Stag is seen on the Hagedorn, gazing with fixed eyes into the peaceful vale.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Hagedorn	Hagedorn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | the White Stag |  | the Hagedorn | on John  St.'s Day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with fixed eyes; into the peaceful vale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vale=Theme |
| 3 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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