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title: Deep melancholy seized the youths, and during their drive home the w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep melancholy seized the youths, and during their drive home the wild horses plunged with the carriage into a deep abyss, where the youths were found broken in pieces. Who acts: Deep melancholy, youths, Goblets. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 92

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Deep melancholy seized the youths, and during their drive home the wild horses plunged with the carriage into a deep abyss, where the youths were found broken in pieces.

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**Who acts:** Deep melancholy, youths, Goblets · **What happens:** seize, plunge, find, break, drive · **To what, where:** youths, drive, deep abyss, pieces

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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 (Deep melancholy, youths, Goblets), 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:pg74323:9:92
# text = Deep melancholy seized the youths, and during their drive home the wild horses plunged with the carriage into a deep abyss, where the youths were found broken in pieces.
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	drive	drive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Deep melancholy | the youths |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
| 2 | **plunge** | participle · passive |  | Goblets's drive |  | a deep abyss |  | with the carriage; the wild horses *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | the youths |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | participle | the youths *not said here* |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location |
| 5 | **drive** |  | Goblets *= goblet* |  |  |  |  |  | nom drive «act transitive»: poss=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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