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title: The fear of the miller rose to despair, and as he saw the roof and t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The fear of the miller rose to despair, and as he saw the roof and the huge sweeps set up and finished, and the last millstone rolled to its place, he seized it with the power of a deadly terror, threw it from the rollers with such force, that it rolled down the mountain. Who acts: fear, last millst
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 24

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The fear of the miller rose to despair, and as he saw the roof and the huge sweeps set up and finished, and the last millstone rolled to its place, he seized it with the power of a deadly terror, threw it from the rollers with such force, that it rolled down the mountain.

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**Who acts:** fear, last millstone, millstone · **What happens:** rise, despair, see, set up, finish, roll · **To what, where:** roof, huge sweeps, last millstone, place, miller, rollers

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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 (fear, last millstone, millstone), 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:pg74323:11:24
# text = The fear of the miller rose to despair, and as he saw the roof and the huge sweeps set up and finished, and the last millstone rolled to its place, he seized it with the power of a deadly terror, threw it from the rollers with such force, that it rolled down the mountain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	despair	despair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sweeps	sweep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	millstone	millstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
29	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	rollers	roller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
57	down	down	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the fear of the miller |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **despair** | to-infinitive | the fear of the miller *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | past | fear | the roof and the huge sweeps |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roof=Stimulus |
| 4 | **set up** | participle |  | the huge sweeps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **finish** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **roll** | participle |  | the last millstone *not said here* |  | millstone's place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
| 7 | **seize** | past | the last millstone | miller |  |  |  | with the power of a deadly terror; fear *nsubj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **throw** | past |  | miller |  | the rollers |  | with such force | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from roller=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **roll down** | past | millstone | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mountain=Theme |
| 10 | **fear** |  |  | the miller |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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