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title: Thus he frequently sat hours at a time by his nets, lost in dreams,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus he frequently sat hours at a time by his nets, lost in dreams, ever glancing again across to the wild ruins, and wishing the long-vanished centuries back again. Who acts: tradition. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its de
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 80

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Thus he frequently sat hours at a time by his nets, lost in dreams, ever glancing again across to the wild ruins, and wishing the long-vanished centuries back again.

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**Who acts:** tradition · **What happens:** sit, lose, glance, wish · **To what, where:** nets, dreams

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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 (tradition), 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:pg74323:7:80
# text = Thus he frequently sat hours at a time by his nets, lost in dreams, ever glancing again across to the wild ruins, and wishing the long-vanished centuries back again.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	across	across	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	vanished	vanished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | tradition |  |  |  | hour; time | by tradition's nets; frequently, thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by net=Location |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  | tradition's nets *not said here* |  | dreams |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in dream=Eventuality |
| 3 | **glance** | gerund | tradition *not said here* |  |  |  | ever; again | to the wild ruins; across *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ruin=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** | gerund | tradition *not said here* |  |  |  | again; century |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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