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title: A sharp north wind shook the bare branches of the trees that grew th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A sharp north wind shook the bare branches of the trees that grew thick on both sides of the way, blew the snow in the ravines, and heaped it to huge snow-drifts, which threatened the traveller unacquainted with the locality with danger. Who acts: sharp north wind, trees, huge snow drifts. A sentenc
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 106

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A sharp north wind shook the bare branches of the trees that grew thick on both sides of the way, blew the snow in the ravines, and heaped it to huge snow-drifts, which threatened the traveller unacquainted with the locality with danger.

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**Who acts:** sharp north wind, trees, huge snow drifts · **What happens:** shake, grow, blow, heap, threaten · **To what, where:** bare branches, snow, traveller

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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 (sharp north wind, trees, huge snow drifts), 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:pg74323:11:106
# text = A sharp north wind shook the bare branches of the trees that grew thick on both sides of the way, blew the snow in the ravines, and heaped it to huge snow-drifts, which threatened the traveller unacquainted with the locality with danger.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ravines	ravine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	drifts	drift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	unacquainted	unacquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	locality	locality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | a sharp north wind | the bare branches of the trees |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the trees |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | past | a sharp north wind *not said here* | the snow |  |  |  | in the ravines | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent snow=Patient in ravine=Topic |
| 4 | **heap** | past | a sharp north wind *not said here* | snow |  |  |  | to huge snow drifts | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **threaten** | past | huge snow drifts | the traveller |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus traveller=Experiencer |

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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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