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title: The taste and passion for the wonderful and mysterious are too stron… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The taste and passion for the wonderful and mysterious are too strong in the human mind to permit of these majestic rocks being without their Sage. Who acts: taste. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 37

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The taste and passion for the wonderful and mysterious are too strong in the human mind to permit of these majestic rocks being without their Sage.

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**Who acts:** taste · **What happens:** be, permit · **To what, where:** human mind

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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 (taste), 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:pg74323:9:37
# text = The taste and passion for the wonderful and mysterious are too strong in the human mind to permit of these majestic rocks being without their Sage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the taste for the wonderful and passion |  |  | the human mind |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **permit** | to-infinitive | the taste for the wonderful and passion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this majestic rocks | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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