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title: Dost thou remember the time when we listened to the rustling and moa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Dost thou remember the time when we listened to the rustling and moaning of the fir-trees, like echoes of the voices of olden times? Who acts: we. 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 ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 67

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Dost thou remember the time when we listened to the rustling and moaning of the fir-trees, like echoes of the voices of olden times?

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** do, remember, listen · **To what, where:** thou

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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 (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:pg74323:8:67
# text = Dost thou remember the time when we listened to the rustling and moaning of the fir-trees, like echoes of the voices of olden times?
1	Dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	moaning	moaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | past | we |  |  |  |  | to the rustling and moaning of the fir trees and echoes of the voices of olden times | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to rustling=Theme |

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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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