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title: Gently Reinhilde clasps the father's hands; but the anger-vein swell… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Gently Reinhilde clasps the father's hands; but the anger-vein swells higher on the imperial brow. Who acts: Reinhilde, anger vein. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 91

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Gently Reinhilde clasps the father's hands; but the anger-vein swells higher on the imperial brow.

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**Who acts:** Reinhilde, anger vein · **What happens:** clasp, swell · **To what, where:** hands

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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 (Reinhilde, anger vein), 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:pg74323:8:91
# text = Gently Reinhilde clasps the father's hands; but the anger-vein swells higher on the imperial brow.
1	Gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Reinhilde	Reinhilde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	clasps	clasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	vein	vein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clasp** | present | Reinhilde | the father's hands |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **swell** | present | the anger vein |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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