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title: The birds of the wood had sung her death-song, and the trees had sho… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The birds of the wood had sung her death-song, and the trees had showered their leaves and blossoms over the still form. Who acts: Liutburga. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 38

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The birds of the wood had sung her death-song, and the trees had showered their leaves and blossoms over the still form.

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**Who acts:** Liutburga · **What happens:** sing, shower · **To what, where:** birds, trees, form

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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 (Liutburga), 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:pg74323:8:38
# text = The birds of the wood had sung her death-song, and the trees had showered their leaves and blossoms over the still form.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	showered	shower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive |  | the birds of the wood |  |  |  | Liutburga's death song *obj* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary song=Theme |
| 2 | **shower** | past · perfect · passive |  | the trees |  | the form |  | trees's leaves and blossoms *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** |  | Liutburga |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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