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title: Now the vale narrows, magnificent walls of rock rise, and picturesqu… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the vale narrows, magnificent walls of rock rise, and picturesque waterfalls toss themselves down the stream. Who acts: vale narrows, picturesque waterfalls. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 3

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Now the vale narrows, magnificent walls of rock rise, and picturesque waterfalls toss themselves down the stream.

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**Who acts:** vale narrows, picturesque waterfalls · **What happens:** rise, toss down · **To what, where:** waterfalls

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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 (vale narrows, picturesque waterfalls), 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:pg74323:8:3
# text = Now the vale narrows, magnificent walls of rock rise, and picturesque waterfalls toss themselves down the stream.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	narrows	narrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	toss	toss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | the vale narrows and magnificent walls of rock |  |  |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **toss down** | present | picturesque waterfalls | waterfalls *= waterfall* |  |  |  | the stream *obl:unmarked* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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