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title: It was a stormy, dismal winter night, when a teamster drove with a h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a stormy, dismal winter night, when a teamster drove with a heavy load of wine along the almost impassable road near the little mountain church of Elend, at the foot of the Brocken. Who acts: Chapel, teamster. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends a
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 104

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It was a stormy, dismal winter night, when a teamster drove with a heavy load of wine along the almost impassable road near the little mountain church of Elend, at the foot of the Brocken.

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**Who acts:** Chapel, teamster · **What happens:** be, drive · **To what, where:** stormy dismal winter night, little mountain church

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chapel, teamster), 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:pg74323:11:104
# text = It was a stormy, dismal winter night, when a teamster drove with a heavy load of wine along the almost impassable road near the little mountain church of Elend, at the foot of the Brocken.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teamster	teamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	along	along	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	impassable	impassable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Elend	Elend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Brocken	Brocken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Chapel | a stormy dismal winter night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | past | a teamster |  |  | the little mountain church of Elend and the foot of the Brocken |  | with a heavy load of wine; along the impassable road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along road=Trajectory |

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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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