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title: The nag, feeling no longer the hand guiding the reins, turned aside… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The nag, feeling no longer the hand guiding the reins, turned aside to seek for himself a fresh breakfast, stood still, and began to graze. Who acts: nag, hand. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 45

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The nag, feeling no longer the hand guiding the reins, turned aside to seek for himself a fresh breakfast, stood still, and began to graze.

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**Who acts:** nag, hand · **What happens:** feel, guide, turn, seek, stand, begin · **To what, where:** hand, reins, fresh breakfast

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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 (nag, hand), 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:pg74323:9:45
# text = The nag, feeling no longer the hand guiding the reins, turned aside to seek for himself a fresh breakfast, stood still, and began to graze.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nag	nag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	guiding	guide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | the nag *not said here* | the hand |  |  |  | long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **guide** | gerund | the hand *not said here* | the reins |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | participle |  | the reins *not said here* |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | a fresh breakfast |  |  |  | for nag | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent breakfast=Location for himself=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the nag |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the nag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **graze** | to-infinitive | the nag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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