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title: Lost in devotional thoughts, hence without fear, he rode quietly alo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Lost in devotional thoughts, hence without fear, he rode quietly along; an irresistible languor seized him and he fell asleep. Who acts: rode, irresistible languor. 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 44

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Lost in devotional thoughts, hence without fear, he rode quietly along; an irresistible languor seized him and he fell asleep.

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**Who acts:** rode, irresistible languor · **What happens:** lose, ride, seize, fall · **To what, where:** devotional thoughts, rode

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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 (rode, irresistible languor), 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:pg74323:9:44
# text = Lost in devotional thoughts, hence without fear, he rode quietly along; an irresistible languor seized him and he fell asleep.
1	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	devotional	devotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	along	along	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	languor	languor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle | rode *= road* *not said here* |  |  | devotional thoughts and fear |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ride** | past | rode *= road* |  |  |  |  | along, quietly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seize** | past | a irresistible languor | rode *= road* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | rode *= road* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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