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title: Low willows adorn the banks, and bathe their locks in the waves, out… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Low willows adorn the banks, and bathe their locks in the waves, out of which a thick wood of slender reeds springs forth. Who acts: Low willows, thick wood. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 2

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Low willows adorn the banks, and bathe their locks in the waves, out of which a thick wood of slender reeds springs forth.

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**Who acts:** Low willows, thick wood · **What happens:** adorn, bathe, reed · **To what, where:** banks, locks

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Low willows, thick wood), 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:pg74323:8:2
# text = Low willows adorn the banks, and bathe their locks in the waves, out of which a thick wood of slender reeds springs forth.
1	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	adorn	adorn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	slender	slender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	reeds	reed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adorn** | present | Low willows | the banks |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bank=Destination |
| 2 | **bathe** | infinitive | Low willows *not said here* | willows's locks |  |  |  | in the waves | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lock=Destination in wave=Theme |
| 3 | **reed** | present | a thick wood of slender |  |  |  | spring | which *obl*; forth *property* | tree rules |

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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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