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title: Suddenly the forest grows thin; the vale divides itself in two arms,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly the forest grows thin; the vale divides itself in two arms, and in the dale to the right, we see, close by the red-roofed forage-house for game, grey rocks and ruins. Who acts: forest, vale, we. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., pa
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 4

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Suddenly the forest grows thin; the vale divides itself in two arms, and in the dale to the right, we see, close by the red-roofed forage-house for game, grey rocks and ruins.

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**Who acts:** forest, vale, we · **What happens:** grow, divide, see, roof · **To what, where:** vale, two arms, dale

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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 (forest, vale, we), 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:pg74323:8:4
# text = Suddenly the forest grows thin; the vale divides itself in two arms, and in the dale to the right, we see, close by the red-roofed forage-house for game, grey rocks and ruins.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
29	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	roofed	roof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
32	forage	forage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | the forest |  |  |  |  | suddenly, thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **divide** | present | the vale | vale |  | two arms |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | we |  |  | the dale to the right |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **roof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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