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title: The Kaiser rides forth with his train, and a knight comes on foot an… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kaiser rides forth with his train, and a knight comes on foot and alone, kneels before the shrine and prays, and at the sound of his voice Reinhilde's eye grows bright. Who acts: Kaiser, knight, eye. 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 8, sentence 1

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The Kaiser rides forth with his train, and a knight comes on foot and alone, kneels before the shrine and prays, and at the sound of his voice Reinhilde's eye grows bright.

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**Who acts:** Kaiser, knight, eye · **What happens:** ride, come, pray, grow · **To what, where:** foot, sound

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaiser, knight, eye), 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:pg74323:9:1
# text = The Kaiser rides forth with his train, and a knight comes on foot and alone, kneels before the shrine and prays, and at the sound of his voice Reinhilde's eye grows bright.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	kneels	kneel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	prays	pray	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	Reinhilde	Reinhilde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | the Kaiser |  |  |  |  | with Kaiser's train; forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | a knight |  |  | foot and kneels | before the shrine |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location |
| 3 | **pray** | present | a knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **grow** | present | Reinhilde's eye |  |  | the sound of Kaiser's voice |  | bright *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Location |

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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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